Brood parasite eggs enhance egg survivorship in a multiply parasitized host

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1734, 2012, Pages 1831-1839

  Gloag, Ros ^a   Fiorini, Vanina D ^b   Reboreda, Juan C ^b   Kacelnik, Alex ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Egg rejection; Evolutionary equilibrium; Host defence; Mimus saturninus; Molothrus bonariensis; Risk dilution

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; CLUTCH SIZE; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; EGG REJECTION; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PASSERINE; REARING; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SURVIVORSHIP;

AVES; MIMUS SATURNINUS; MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS BONARIENSIS;

EID: 84858785542     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2047     Document Type: Article

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