ReviewPhilosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences2017
Colour, vision and coevolution in avian brood parasitism.
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- The ecological and developmental foundations of brood parasitism in a catfish.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Genomic Signatures of Selection Across Climate Gradients and a Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution in an Ant Social Parasite-Host System.Molecular biology and evolution · 2025Article
- A synthesized framework for the evolutionary origins of avian obligate brood parasitism.Science advances · 2025Article
- Mixed Parentage Broods Indicate Group Spawning in the Brood Parasitic Cuckoo Catfish.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Host learning selects for the coevolution of greater egg mimicry and narrower antiparasitic egg-rejection thresholds.Evolution letters · 2023Article
- Sensory collectives in natural systems.eLife · 2023Review
- Decision rules for egg-color-based rejection by two cavity-nesting hosts of the brown-headed cowbird.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- The overlooked complexity of avian brood parasite-host relationships.Ecology letters · 2022Review
- Host and brood parasite coevolutionary interactions covary with comparative patterns of the avian visual system.Biology letters · 2021Article
- Signal detection and optimal acceptance thresholds in avian brood parasite-host systems: implications for egg rejection.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Review
- Female-female aggression and male responses to the two colour morphs of female common cuckoos.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2020Article
- Higher-level pattern features provide additional information to birds when recognizing and rejecting parasitic eggs.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Ant behaviour and brain gene expression of defending hosts depend on the ecological success of the intruding social parasite.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Unscrambling variation in avian eggshell colour and patterning in a continent-wide study.Royal Society open science · 2019Article
- How to Make a Mimic? Brood Parasitic Striped Cuckoo Eggs Match Host Shell Color but Not Pigment Concentrations.Journal of chemical ecology · 2018Article
- Living Light 2018: Conference Report.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2018Article
- The current and future state of animal coloration research.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2017Review
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Abstract
The coevolutionary interactions between avian brood parasites and their hosts provide a powerful system for investigating the diversity of animal coloration. Specifically, reciprocal selection pressure applied by hosts and brood parasites can give rise to novel forms and functions of animal coloration, which largely differ from those that arise when selection is imposed by predators or mates. In the study of animal colours, avian brood parasite-host dynamics therefore invite special consideration. Rapid advances across disciplines have paved the way for an integrative study of colour and vision in brood parasite-host systems. We now know that visually driven host defences and host life history have selected for a suite of phenotypic adaptations in parasites, including mimicry, crypsis and supernormal stimuli. This sometimes leads to vision-based host counter-adaptations and increased parasite trickery. Here, we review vision-based adaptations that arise in parasite-host interactions, emphasizing that these adaptations can be visual/sensory, cognitive or phenotypic in nature. We highlight recent breakthroughs in chemistry, genomics, neuroscience and computer vision, and we conclude by identifying important future directions. Moving forward, it will be essential to identify the genetic and neural bases of adaptation and to compare vision-based adaptations to those arising in other sensory modalities.This article is part of the themed issue 'Animal coloration: production, perception, function and application'.
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