<p>Blue lines: eggs from great reed warbler nests; red lines: eggs from reed warbler nests. Bands represent 95% confidence regions.</p
<p>Images were converted to correspond to a blue tit’s (<i>Cyanistes caeruleus</i>) double cones <b>...
<p>Estimates were obtained from linear models and are corrected for the effect of study years. All t...
Background: The exceptional diversity of coloration found in avian eggshells has long fascinated bio...
Reflectance spectra of the common cuckoo and great reed warbler eggs. Data were collected in the fie...
<p>Blue symbols - great reed warbler eggs (filled) or cuckoo eggs found in great warbler nests (open...
<p>Most (7) eggs ranged between very light and light blue-green (peak around 500 nm), but in three c...
Prevailing theory predicts that lower levels of intra-clutch variation in host eggs facilitate the d...
One of the best ways how hosts may defend their clutch against brood parasitism is recognition and r...
SUMMARY: 1. The evolution of coloration has generated some of the most diverse and variable phenotyp...
<p>Representative spectra showing each of the three colors used in the egg rejection experiment, in ...
<p>Data are presented as Means ± SD (ranges). Spot cover and spot distribution are expressed as prop...
<p>(a) Overlap of convex hulls (grey polyhedron) encapsulating point measurements of host (red and b...
Birds are capable of seeing the ultraviolet light (UV) spectrum and as a consequence have evolved UV...
The hypothesis has been tested that evolution has resulted in lower thermal emissivity of eggs of bi...
<p>All values are in the units of just-noticeable differences (JND) and are presented with respectiv...
<p>Images were converted to correspond to a blue tit’s (<i>Cyanistes caeruleus</i>) double cones <b>...
<p>Estimates were obtained from linear models and are corrected for the effect of study years. All t...
Background: The exceptional diversity of coloration found in avian eggshells has long fascinated bio...
Reflectance spectra of the common cuckoo and great reed warbler eggs. Data were collected in the fie...
<p>Blue symbols - great reed warbler eggs (filled) or cuckoo eggs found in great warbler nests (open...
<p>Most (7) eggs ranged between very light and light blue-green (peak around 500 nm), but in three c...
Prevailing theory predicts that lower levels of intra-clutch variation in host eggs facilitate the d...
One of the best ways how hosts may defend their clutch against brood parasitism is recognition and r...
SUMMARY: 1. The evolution of coloration has generated some of the most diverse and variable phenotyp...
<p>Representative spectra showing each of the three colors used in the egg rejection experiment, in ...
<p>Data are presented as Means ± SD (ranges). Spot cover and spot distribution are expressed as prop...
<p>(a) Overlap of convex hulls (grey polyhedron) encapsulating point measurements of host (red and b...
Birds are capable of seeing the ultraviolet light (UV) spectrum and as a consequence have evolved UV...
The hypothesis has been tested that evolution has resulted in lower thermal emissivity of eggs of bi...
<p>All values are in the units of just-noticeable differences (JND) and are presented with respectiv...
<p>Images were converted to correspond to a blue tit’s (<i>Cyanistes caeruleus</i>) double cones <b>...
<p>Estimates were obtained from linear models and are corrected for the effect of study years. All t...
Background: The exceptional diversity of coloration found in avian eggshells has long fascinated bio...