Attractive blue-green egg coloration and cuckoo-host coevolution

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 154-168

  Soler, Juan J ^a   Avilés, Jesús M ^a   Møller, Anders P ^b   Moreno, Juan ^c  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Blue green egg colour; Cuckoo parasitism; Host egg discrimination; Pigment limitation; Sensory biases; Sexual signals

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; COLOR; EGG; MIMICRY; NESTLING; PARENTAL CARE; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PIGMENT; RECOGNITION; SIGNAL;

AVES; CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS CANORUS;

EID: 84859302427     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2012.01857.x     Document Type: Article

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