The past, present and future of 'cuckoos versus reed warblers'

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 693-699

  Stoddard, Mary Caswell ^a   Kilner, Rebecca M ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Behavioural ecology; Brood parasitism; Coevolution; Cognition; Cuculus canorus; Genomics; Sensory ecology

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; COGNITION; FUTURE PROSPECT; GENOMICS; PASSERINE;

ACROCEPHALUS; ANIMALIA; AVES; CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS CANORUS;

EID: 84875483737     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.01.005     Document Type: Article

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