Do first-time breeding females imprint on their own eggs?

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 280, Issue 1752, 2013, Pages

  Soler, Manuel ^a   Ruiz Castellano, Cristina ^a,b   Carra, Laura G ^a   Ontanilla, Juan ^a   Martín Galvez, David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Egg rejection; House sparrow; Imprinting like process; Misimprinting costs; Misimprinting hypothesis; Passer domesticus

Indexed keywords

BROOD PARASITISM; CONSPECIFIC; EGG REJECTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; IMPRINTING; PASSERINE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 84879037002     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2012.2518     Document Type: Article

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