Uncovering dangerous cheats: How do avian hosts recognize adult brood parasites?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Trnka, Alfréd ^a   Prokop, Pavol ^a,b   Grim, Tomáš ^c  

^a TRNAVA UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovakia)

^c PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BIRD; BROOD PARASITE; BROOD PARASITISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; EYE; HAZARD; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL MEMORY; YELLOW EYE; ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; EVOLUTION; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; PIGMENTATION; RECOGNITION; SLOVAKIA; SONGBIRD; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AVES; CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS CANORUS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; CUES; LINEAR MODELS; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PIGMENTATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SLOVAKIA; SONGBIRDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84862094242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037445     Document Type: Article

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