ArticleScience advances2018
Success of cuckoo catfish brood parasitism reflects coevolutionary history and individual experience of their cichlid hosts.
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- The ecological and developmental foundations of brood parasitism in a catfish.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Mixed Parentage Broods Indicate Group Spawning in the Brood Parasitic Cuckoo Catfish.Molecular ecology · 2025Article
- Host nest defence does not act as selective agent against plumage polymorphism in brood parasites.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- RETRACTED: An Evolutionary Strategy for Spawning Habitat Selection byAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Social deprivation in maternal mouthbrooders Tropheus sp. "Caramba" (Teleostei: Cichlidae) decreases the success rate of reproduction and survival rate of fish fry.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Individual experience as a key to success for the cuckoo catfish brood parasitism.Nature communications · 2022Article
- Expression variations in ectodysplasin-A gene (eda) may contribute to morphological divergence of scales in haplochromine cichlids.BMC ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Early life-history features associated with brood parasitism in the cuckoo catfish, Synodontis multipunctatus (Siluriformes: Mochokidae).Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Defences against brood parasites from a social immunity perspective.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
- Under the radar: detection avoidance in brood parasitic bees.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Review
- Parasitic cuckoo catfish exploit parental responses to stray offspring.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Low incidence of cannibalism among brood parasitic cuckoo catfish embryos.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Obligate brood parasites manipulate other species into raising their offspring. Avian and insect brood parasitic systems demonstrate how interacting species engage in reciprocal coevolutionary arms races through behavioral and morphological adaptations and counteradaptations. Mouthbrooding cichlid fishes are renowned for their remarkable evolutionary radiations and complex behaviors. In Lake Tanganyika, mouthbrooding cichlids are exploited by the only obligate nonavian vertebrate brood parasite, the cuckoo catfish
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