"Jack-of-all-trades" egg mimicry in the brood parasitic Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo?

Behavioral Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1365-1373

  Feeney, William E ^a   Stoddard, Mary Caswell ^b,c   Kilner, Rebecca M ^b   Langmore, Naomi E ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptation; arms race; bird color space; brood parasitism; coevolution; cuckoo; egg mimicry; spectrophotometry; tetrachromatic; TETRACOLORSPACE

Indexed keywords

BIRD; BROOD PARASITISM; EGG REJECTION; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; HOST SPECIFICITY; MIMICRY; PHENOTYPE;

AVES;

EID: 84913596343     PISSN: 10452249     EISSN: 14657279     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/aru133     Document Type: Article

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