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True recognition of nestlings by hosts selects for mimetic cuckoo chicks.
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- Discrimination and ejection of eggs and nestlings by the fan-tailed gerygone from New Caledonia.Current zoology · 2021Article
- Personality, recognition cues, and nest sanitation in obligate avian brood parasitism: what do we know and what comes next?Current zoology · 2021Article
- Imperfect mimicry of host begging calls by a brood parasitic cuckoo: a cue for nestling rejection by hosts?Current zoology · 2021Article
- From micro- to macroevolution: brood parasitism as a driver of phenotypic diversity in birds.Current zoology · 2020Article
- Spatial variation in egg polymorphism among cuckoo hosts across 4 continents.Current zoology · 2020Article
- How to learn to recognize conspecific brood parasitic offspring.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Evolutionarily stable investments in recognition systems explain patterns of discrimination failure and success.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Parasitic cuckoo catfish exploit parental responses to stray offspring.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
- True recognition of nestlings by hosts selects for mimetic cuckoo chicks.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
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Abstract
Brood parasitic cuckoos lay their eggs in other birds' nests, whereafter the young cuckoo hatches, ejects its nest-mates and monopolizes the care of the host parents. Theory predicts that hosts should not evolve to recognize and reject cuckoo chicks via imprinting because of the risk of mistakenly imprinting on a cuckoo chick in their first brood and thereafter always rejecting their own chicks. However, recent studies have revealed that some hosts do reject cuckoo chicks from the nest, indicating that these hosts' recognition systems either do not rely on first brood imprinting, or use cues that are independent of chick phenotype. Here, we investigate the proximate mechanisms of chick rejection behaviour in the large-billed gerygone (
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