Reed warbler hosts fine-tune their defenses to track three decades of cuckoo decline

Evolution

Volumn 67, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 3545-3555

  Thorogood, Rose ^a   Davies, Nicholas B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brood parasitism; Coevolution; Environmental change; Phenotypic plasticity

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EGG REJECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; MOBBING; PASSERINE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POPULATION DECLINE; RISK FACTOR; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS SCIRPACEUS; ANIMALIA; AVES; CUCULIDAE; CUCULUS CANORUS;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD;

BROOD PARASITISM; COEVOLUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CONSUMMATORY BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 84888831857     PISSN: 00143820     EISSN: 15585646     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/evo.12213     Document Type: Article

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