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

<h4>Background</h4>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...

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Auteurs principaux: Anton Antonov, Bård G Stokke, Frode Fossøy, Peter S Ranke, Wei Liang, Canchao Yang, Arne Moksnes, Jacqui Shykoff, Eivin Røskaft
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Langue:EN
Publié: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012
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Accès en ligne:https://doaj.org/article/d0cfea4c430849d788392a0d75d58c84
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