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ArticleBiology letters2025

Hosts eject conspecific parasitic eggs according to the egg size in a passerine.

Alaïs Liénard, Diego Gil, Chantal Poteaux, Raquel Monclús

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Article in Biology letters, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Alaïs LiénardLaboratoire d'Éthologie Expérimentale et Comparée UR 4443 (LEEC), Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Villetaneuse 93430, France.ORCID 0000-0003-3489-9432
Diego GilDepartamento de Ecología Evolutiva, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales (CSIC), Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-3179-1987
Chantal PoteauxLaboratoire d'Éthologie Expérimentale et Comparée UR 4443 (LEEC), Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Villetaneuse 93430, France.ORCID 0000-0002-6815-4650
Raquel MonclúsLaboratoire d'Éthologie Expérimentale et Comparée UR 4443 (LEEC), Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Villetaneuse 93430, France.ORCID 0000-0001-7117-3521

Funding

Agencia Estatal de InvestigaciónEcole Doctorale Galilée of the Université Sorbonne Paris
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Conspecific brood parasitism (CBP) is an alternative reproductive tactic in egg-laying species, where a female lays her eggs in the nest of a conspecific. In a population of spotless starlings (

Indexed as

Nesting BehaviorOvumStarlingsAnimalsFemaleconspecific brood parasitismegg ejectionhost responsereproductive strategiesSturnus unicolor

Identifiers

PMID40068829
PMCPMC11896707

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