Host personalities and the evolution of behavioural adaptations in brood parasitic-host systems

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 613-618

  Avilés, Jesús M ^a   Parejo, Deseada ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Avian brood parasitism; Parasite host coevolution; Personality

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AVIFAUNA; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; NESTLING; TOLERANCE;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 80052775115     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.07.025     Document Type: Review

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