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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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Publicado en:Front Zool
Autores principales: Ibáñez-Álamo, Juan Diego, Ruiz-Raya, Francisco, Rodríguez, Laura, Soler, Manuel
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Lenguaje:Inglês
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea: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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