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Are cuckoos maximizing egg mimicry by selecting host individuals with better matching egg phenotypes?

PloS one - 1 Jan 2012

Antonov Anton, Stokke Bård G, Fossøy Frode, Ranke Peter S, Liang Wei, Yang Canchao, Moksnes Arne, Shykoff Jacqui, Røskaft Eivin

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BACKGROUND: Avian brood parasites and their hosts are involved in complex offence-defense coevolutionary arms races. The most common pair of reciprocal adaptations in these systems is egg discrimination by hosts and egg mimicry by parasites. As mimicry improves, more advanced host adaptations evolve such as decreased intra- and increased interclutch variation in egg appearance to facilitate detection of parasitic...

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PMID: 22384060
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031704
PMCID: PMC3285637

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