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Fecal sacs attract insects to the nest and provoke an activation of the immune system of nestlings

BACKGROUND: Nest sanitation is a widespread but rarely studied behavior in birds. The most common form of nest sanitation behavior, the removal of nestling feces, has focused the discussion about which selective pressures determine this behavior. The parasitism hypothesis, which states that nestling...

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Publié dans:Front Zool
Auteurs principaux: Ibáñez-Álamo, Juan Diego, Ruiz-Raya, Francisco, Rodríguez, Laura, Soler, Manuel
Format: Artigo
Langue:Inglês
Publié: BioMed Central 2016
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Accès en ligne:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4719217/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26793266
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12983-016-0135-3
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