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Internal incubation and early hatching in brood parasitic birds

The offspring of brood parasitic birds benefit from hatching earlier than host young. A proposed but little-known strategy to achieve this is ‘internal incubation’, by retaining the egg in the oviduct for an additional 24 h. To test this, we quantified the stage of embryo development at laying in fo...

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Main Authors: Birkhead, T. R., Hemmings, N., Spottiswoode, C. N., Mikulica, O., Moskát, C., Bán, M., Schulze-Hagen, K.
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: The Royal Society 2011
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3049026/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20880882
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2010.1504
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