Naïve hosts of avian brood parasites accept foreign eggs, whereas older hosts fine-tune foreign egg discrimination during laying

Frontiers in Zoology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Moskát, Csaba ^a   Bán, Miklós ^b   Hauber, Márk E ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DEBRECEN   (Hungary)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptation; Brood parasitism; Clutch learning; Egg discrimination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902942707     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17429994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1742-9994-11-45     Document Type: Article

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