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Geographic distribution of suitable hosts explains the evolution of specialized gentes in the European cuckoo Cuculus canorus

BACKGROUND: Several types of selective forces can act to promote parasite specialization. Parasites might specialize on some suitable hosts at the cost of decreasing effectiveness when exploiting other species of hosts, and specialization can be more easily selected for in hosts that the parasites w...

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Main Authors: Soler, Juan J, Vivaldi, Manuel Martín, Møller, Anders Pape
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2009
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2683792/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19405966
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-9-88
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