Are cuckoos maximizing egg mimicry by selecting host individuals with better matching egg phenotypes?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Antonov, Anton ^a   Stokke, Bård G ^a   Fossøy, Frode ^a   Ranke, Peter S ^a   Liang, Wei ^b   Yang, Canchao ^b   Moksnes, Arne ^a   Shykoff, Jacqui ^c   Røskaft, Eivin ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b HAINAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGG LAYING; EGG PRODUCTION; EGG SIZE; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST SELECTION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUMINANCE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BULGARIA; COLOR; COMPUTER PROGRAM; FEMALE; OOCYTE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SONGBIRD;

ACROCEPHALUS PALUSTRIS; AVES; CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS CANORUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; BULGARIA; COLOR; FEMALE; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; OVIPOSITION; OVUM; PASSERIFORMES; PHENOTYPE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84863116233     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031704     Document Type: Review

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