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Visual discrimination of polymorphic nestlings in a cuckoo-host system.

Scientific reports - 9 Jul 2018

Attisano Alfredo, Sato Nozomu J, Tanaka Keita D, Okahisa Yuji, Kuehn Ralph, Gula Roman, Ueda Keisuke, Theuerkauf Jörn

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Mimicry by avian brood parasites favours uniformity over variation within a breeding attempt as host defence against parasitism. In a cuckoo-host system from New Caledonia, the arms race resulted in both host (Gerygone flavolateralis) and parasite (Chalcites lucidus) having nestlings of two discrete skin colour phenotypes, bright and dark. In our study sites, host nestlings occurred in monomorphic and polymorphic...

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PMID: 29985476
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-28710-5
PMCID: PMC6037703

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