Ancient host specificity within a single species of brood parasitic bird

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 43, 2011, Pages 17738-17742

  Spottiswoode, Claire N ^a,b   Stryjewski, Katherine Faust ^c   Quader, Suhel ^a,e   Colebrook Robjent, John F R ^d   Sorenson, Michael D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c USA   (United States)

^d Musumanene Farm ^*  (Zambia)

^e TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Gentes; Phylogeography; W chromosome hypothesis

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BIRD; BROOD PARASITE; CELL LINEAGE; CHICK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYPTIC (ERA); EGG; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GREATER HONEYGUIDE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST RANGE; MATING; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HOST SPECIFICITY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS; ZAMBIA; ZYGOTE;

AVES; CUCULIDAE; INDICATOR INDICATOR;

EID: 80055072047     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1109630108     Document Type: Article

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