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The costs of avian brood parasitism explain variation in egg rejection behaviour in hosts

Many bird species can reject foreign eggs from their nests. This behaviour is thought to have evolved in response to brood parasites, birds that lay their eggs in the nest of other species. However, not all hosts of brood parasites evict parasitic eggs. In this study, we collate data from egg reject...

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Udgivet i:Biol Lett
Main Authors: Medina, Iliana, Langmore, Naomi E.
Format: Artigo
Sprog:Inglês
Udgivet: The Royal Society 2015
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Online adgang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4528443/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26156128
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2015.0296
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