Brood parasite
Egg Eviction Imposes a Recoverable Cost of Virulence in Chicks of a Brood Parasite
... in brood reducers, parents lay larger clutches than they are capable of raising, reducing the brood at the later stages by selectively feeding larger ...sole brood parasite nestlings in nests ...
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A neural basis for password based species recognition in an avian brood parasite
... obligate brood parasites, which are species in which offspring are exclusively raised by heterospecifics, and include lineages in fishes, insects and birds (Göth and Hauber, 2004; Manna and Hauber, ...obligate ...
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Host response to cuckoo song is predicted by the future risk of brood parasitism
... of brood parasitism is also ...of brood parasitism at that ...towards brood parasite mounts during the egg-laying phase or early in the breeding cycle ...a brood parasite should ...
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The role of egg–nest contrast in the rejection of brood parasitic eggs
... The proximate, perceptual controls underlying egg rejection behavior have been intensively studied in various brood parasite – host systems (Kilner and Langmore, 2011). Generally, an egg should be perceived ...
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Color plumage polymorphism and predator mimicry in brood parasites
... unravel parasite tricks that evolved as a response to host defenses at the nestling stage (reviewed in ...of brood parasite adult plumage variation is in its infancy ...
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Function of note strings in Japanese Tit alarm calls to the Common Cuckoo: a playback experiment
... a brood parasite, but the D-note strings of the alarm call uttered in response to the Common Cuckoo transmits different information from the “D” calls in response to ...
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An investigation into the host parasite interrelationship between Common Swifts and Hippoboscid Louse Flies
... The prevalence of C. pallida and their intensity of parasitism has been determined at only one nest site, at the Oxford University Museum site used in the original study by Lack (1956). At this study site, a mean ...
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Brood sex ratio in the Yellow-bellied Prinia (Prinia flaviventris)
... Previous work with other species revealed that the brood sex ratio is expected to increase inclusive fitness of birds in varying conditions (Howe 1977; Dijkstra et al. 1990; Smallwood and Smallwood 1998; Korpimaki ...
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Erratum to: disrupting rhythms in Plasmodium chabaudi: costs accrue quickly and independently of how infections are initiated
... Why might ring stage parasites suffer from schedule mismatch whereas trophozoite stages benefit? One ex- planation is that it is simply costly for parasites to enter the host in the evening (when mismatched ring stages ...
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Macroevolutionary outcomes of coevolution between avian brood parasites and their hosts
... are brood parasites or not. Thus, if brood parasitism were associated with changes in rates in these lineages, then we would expect a shift in rates in the same node where brood para- sitism ...
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Caught red handed: behaviour of brood thieves in an Indian ant
... shift? Brood theft requires the thief to steal a brood item from a guarded nest, and transport it back to its own ...thieves, brood theft was compared with two other contexts that involve an ant ...
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Composition and structure of the parasite faunas of cod, Gadus morhua L (Teleostei: Gadidae), in the North East Atlantic
... the parasite faunas in cod from Celtic, Irish and North seas and Icelandic waters, perhaps due to the similar oceanographic characteristics of these four ...
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Influential Parameters for the Analysis of Intracellular Parasite Metabolomics
... M alaria continues to be responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths annually, most of which result from infection with the protozoan parasite Plasmodium falciparum (1). Characterization of the biology of this ...
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Hout in sy brood! lets oor Calvyn se Bybelgebruik
... H ierdie sinsnede, sê Calvyn, beteken hoegenaam d nie dat die liggaam van Christus aan die kruishout vasgespyker moet wees nie. Om dit so allegories op te vat (al beroep hulle hulle daarvoor op die Kerkvaders), is niks ...
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Brood pheromone suppresses physiology of extreme longevity in honeybees (Apis mellifera)
... When brood rearing declines, worker lifespan is 20 weeks or ...in brood food synthesis, and the metabolic cost of brood rearing (nurse load) may consume vitellogenin stores and reduce worker ...
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Host responses to interspecific brood parasitism: a by-product of adaptations to conspecific parasitism?
... local brood parasites do not use intro- duced species [17], the two thrush species have been isolated from common cuckoos for a period that is an order of magnitude longer (century and a half ) than the duration ...
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Morphology of brood pouch formation in the pot-bellied seahorse Hippocampus abdominalis
... stage brood pouch mainly comprises a single layer of dermis, while the pseudoplacenta is not yet ...of brood pouch formation, the morphological characteristics of the luminal epithelium are similar to that ...
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Effect of brood size manipulation on offspring physiology: an experiment with passerine birds
... The only organ that differed between brood sizes was the gizzard, being greater in individuals in the reduced broods. Since individuals in the reduced broods were presumably receiving more food, variation in the ...
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Mechanisms of brood reduction in Fiordland crested penguins (Eudyptes pachyrhynchus)
... 59 male birds, nor exceptional mortality of males has been reported from natural populations Warham 1975, and the extreme infrequency with which first eggs result in fledged chicks in so[r] ...
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A game-theoretic model of interspecific brood parasitism with sequential decisions
... and parasite is proportional to this parameter, and such interactions are detrimental to the host, whereas our model assumes no interactions between parasites at ...the parasite reward occurs in a sudden ...
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