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Cryptic cuckoo eggs hide from competing cuckoos

Interspecific arms races between cuckoos and their hosts have produced remarkable examples of mimicry, with parasite eggs evolving to match host egg appearance and so evade removal by hosts. Certain bronze-cuckoo species, however, lay eggs that are cryptic rather than mimetic. These eggs are coated...

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Main Authors: Gloag, Ros, Keller, Laurie-Anne, Langmore, Naomi E.
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: The Royal Society 2014
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4150317/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25122227
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.1014
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