ArticleCurrent zoology2023
Egg rejection based on egg size recognition as a specific strategy against parasitic cuckoos.
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- Egg-Inspection Frequency Predicts Egg Recognition but Not Ejection in a Cuckoo Host.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Host Exploitation by Cuckoos in China: A Review and Real-Time Tracking Program for Parasitism Records.Integrative zoology · 2026Review
- Host personality and seasonal parasitism risk do not account for egg rejection behavior in the azure-winged magpie.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2025Article
- Cuckoo Hosts Fine-Tune Their Egg Rejection After Experiencing a Parasitism Event.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Eggshell spots are an important cue for the egg retrieval behavior in two tit species.Animal cognition · 2023Article
- Revealing the roles of egg darkness and nest similarity for a cryptic parasite egg versus host's cognition: an alternate coevolutionary trajectory.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Egg Rejection and Nest Sanitation in an Island Population of Barn Swallows (Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
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Abstract
In the coevolutionary interactions between avian brood parasites and their hosts, egg recognition based on color and/or pattern is a common and effective defense to counter parasitism. However, for egg recognition based on size, only a few studies have found affirmative results, and they do not provide unambiguous evidence that egg size recognition in hosts has evolved as an important and specific anti-parasite adaptation against parasite eggs. We studied the brood parasite system between the Asian emerald cuckoo
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