Exploitation of hosts by brood parasitic cuckoos is expected to stimulate a coevolutionary arms race of adaptations and counteradaptations. However, some hosts have not evolved defenses against parasitism. One hypothesis to explain a lack of host defenses is that the life-history strategies of some hosts reduce the cost of parasitism to the extent that accepting parasitic eggs in the nest is evolutionarily stable. Under this hypothesis, it pays hosts to accept cuckoo eggs if (1) the energetic cost of raising the cuckoo is low, (2) there is time to renest, and (3) clutch size is small. We parasitized the nests of host and nonhost species with nonmimetic model eggs to test whether the evolution of egg recognition by cuckoo hosts could be expl...
Brood parasite - host systems continue to offer insights into species coevolution. A notable system ...
In the evolution of interspecific social parasites, the shift from facultative to obligate brood par...
Brood parasite – host systems continue to offer insights into species coevolution. A notable system ...
Exploitation of hosts by brood parasitic cuckoos is expected to stimulate a coevolutionary arms race...
Krüger O. Brood parasitism selects for no defence in a cuckoo host. Proceedings of The Royal Society...
Abstract. To understand the co-existence of rejection and acceptance of cuckoo eggs within a host po...
Many bird species can reject foreign eggs from their nests. This behaviour is thought to have evolve...
Brood-parasitic cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of other birds and thereafter abandon their youn...
The evolutionary equilibrium hypothesis was proposed to explain variation in egg rejection rates amo...
Brood parasitic cuckoos and their hosts serve as model systems for studying host-parasite coevolutio...
Females of avian brood parasites have evolved various tactics to succeed in their reproductive strat...
Different populations of a host species subject to variable patterns of selection due to cuckoo para...
Krüger O. Cuckoos, cowbirds and hosts: adaptations, trade-offs and constraints. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSA...
Avian brood parasitism represents a suitable system for studying coevolution, as parasite and host e...
Abstract Brood parasite — host systems continue to offer insights into species coevolution. A notab...
Brood parasite - host systems continue to offer insights into species coevolution. A notable system ...
In the evolution of interspecific social parasites, the shift from facultative to obligate brood par...
Brood parasite – host systems continue to offer insights into species coevolution. A notable system ...
Exploitation of hosts by brood parasitic cuckoos is expected to stimulate a coevolutionary arms race...
Krüger O. Brood parasitism selects for no defence in a cuckoo host. Proceedings of The Royal Society...
Abstract. To understand the co-existence of rejection and acceptance of cuckoo eggs within a host po...
Many bird species can reject foreign eggs from their nests. This behaviour is thought to have evolve...
Brood-parasitic cuckoos lay their eggs in the nests of other birds and thereafter abandon their youn...
The evolutionary equilibrium hypothesis was proposed to explain variation in egg rejection rates amo...
Brood parasitic cuckoos and their hosts serve as model systems for studying host-parasite coevolutio...
Females of avian brood parasites have evolved various tactics to succeed in their reproductive strat...
Different populations of a host species subject to variable patterns of selection due to cuckoo para...
Krüger O. Cuckoos, cowbirds and hosts: adaptations, trade-offs and constraints. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSA...
Avian brood parasitism represents a suitable system for studying coevolution, as parasite and host e...
Abstract Brood parasite — host systems continue to offer insights into species coevolution. A notab...
Brood parasite - host systems continue to offer insights into species coevolution. A notable system ...
In the evolution of interspecific social parasites, the shift from facultative to obligate brood par...
Brood parasite – host systems continue to offer insights into species coevolution. A notable system ...