Hosts of avian brood parasites have evolved egg signatures with elevated information content

Volume: 282, Issue: 1810, Pages: 20150598 - 20150598
Published: Jul 7, 2015
Abstract
Hosts of brood-parasitic birds must distinguish their own eggs from parasitic mimics, or pay the cost of mistakenly raising a foreign chick. Egg discrimination is easier when different host females of the same species each lay visually distinctive eggs (egg 'signatures'), which helps to foil mimicry by parasites. Here, we ask whether brood parasitism is associated with lower levels of correlation between different egg traits in hosts, making...
Paper Details
Title
Hosts of avian brood parasites have evolved egg signatures with elevated information content
Published Date
Jul 7, 2015
Volume
282
Issue
1810
Pages
20150598 - 20150598
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