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Hosts of avian brood parasites have evolved egg signatures with elevated information content

Hosts of brood-parasitic birds must distinguish their own eggs from parasitic mimics, or pay the cost of mistakenly raising a foreign chick. Egg discrimination is easier when different host females of the same species each lay visually distinctive eggs (egg ‘signatures’), which helps to foil mimicry...

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Publicado no:Proc Biol Sci
Main Authors: Caves, Eleanor M., Stevens, Martin, Iversen, Edwin S., Spottiswoode, Claire N.
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado em: The Royal Society 2015
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Acesso em linha:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4590476/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26085586
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.0598
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