Outcomes of brood parasite-host interactions mediated by egg matching: Common cuckoos cuculus canorus versus fringilla finches

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Vikan, Johan Reinert ^a   Fossøy, Frode ^a   Huhta, Esa ^b   Moksnes, Arne ^a   Røskaft, Eivin ^a   Stokke, Bård Gunnar ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BROOD PARASITE; COEVOLUTION; COLOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUCULUS CANORUS; EGG PARASITOID; EGG PRODUCTION; EGG SHELL; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; FRINGILLA COELEBS; FRINGILLA MONTIFRINGILLA; GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION (SPECIES); HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PATCH DYNAMICS; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SYMPATRY; ANIMAL; FINLAND; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NESTING; NORWAY; OOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SONGBIRD; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWEDEN;

AVES; CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS CANORUS; FRINGILLA; FRINGILLA COELEBS; FRINGILLA MONTIFRINGILLA; FRINGILLIDAE;

ANIMALS; COLOR; EGG SHELL; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FINLAND; GEOGRAPHY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; LINEAR MODELS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; NORWAY; OVUM; PASSERIFORMES; PHENOTYPE; PROBABILITY; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SWEDEN;

EID: 79955838850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019288     Document Type: Article

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