Communal breeding: clever defense against cheats.
High levels of conspecific brood parasitism are found in a communally breeding bird, with implications for the evolutionary links between brood parasitism and communal breeding. It also uncovers a novel egg recognition mechanism hosts use to foil brood parasites.
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz, California 95064, USA.
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Lyon
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Shizuka
D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology*; D052284:Clutch Size; D005260:Female; D009425:Nesting Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D013997:Time Factors