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Are avian eggshell colours effective intraspecific communication signals in the Muscicapoidea? A perceptual modelling approach

Phillip Cassey, Auteur ; John G. Ewen, Auteur ; N. Justin Marshall, Auteur ; Misha Vorobyev, Auteur ; Tim M. Blackburn, Auteur ; Mark E. Hauber, Auteur

Dans Ibis (151(4) OCT 2009)

Diversity in the colour and appearance of avian eggshells has been proposed to serve a variety of visual functions, including crypsis from predation, mimicry and discrimination in facultative and obligate brood parasitism, and sexually selected [...]

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