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A novel method of rejection of brood parasitic eggs reduces parasitism intensity in a cowbird host

The hosts of brood parasitic birds are under strong selection pressure to recognize and remove foreign eggs from their nests, but parasite eggs may be too large to be grasped whole and too strong to be readily pierced by the host's bill. Such operating constraints on egg removal are proposed to...

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Auteurs principaux: De Mársico, María C., Gloag, Ros, Ursino, Cynthia A., Reboreda, Juan C.
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: The Royal Society 2013
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3645041/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23485877
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2013.0076
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