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Virginia E. Abernathy, Auteur ; Wei Liang, AuteurOne of the most efficient defences against obligate brood parasitism in birds is egg ejection, where a host recognises and removes the parasitic egg from the nest. This defence often selects for egg mimicry in parasitic species to reduce the lik[...]
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Virginia E. Abernathy, Auteur ; Jolyon Troscianko, Auteur ; Naomi E. Langmore, AuteurWhen brood parasites exploit multiple host species, egg rejection by hosts may select for the evolution of host-specific races, where each race mimics a particular host's egg type. However, some brood parasites that exploit multiple hosts with t[...]
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Virginia E. Abernathy, Auteur ; Naomi E. Langmore, AuteurLittle is known about the early stages of the coevolutionary interactions between brood parasites and their hosts or how rapidly hosts evolve defences. We investigated the success of breeding attempts by the brood-parasitic Pacific Koel (Eudynam[...]
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Virginia E. Abernathy, Auteur ; Brian D. Peer, AuteurABSTRACT With the discovery that the ultraviolet (UV) spectrum is visible to birds, studies have shown how this parameter can affect the ability of hosts of brood parasites to recognize eggs. However, the role UV reflectance plays in egg recogni[...]
