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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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Autores principales: De Mársico, María C., Gloag, Ros, Ursino, Cynthia A., Reboreda, Juan C.
Formato: Artigo
Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: The Royal Society 2013
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Acceso en línea: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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