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ArticleBiology letters2025

Pigment concentrations only partially predict avian eggshell colour mimicry in a polymorphic host-brood parasite system.

Daniel Hanley, Mark E Hauber, Mandë Holford, Collins Moya, Claire N Spottiswoode, Tanmay Dixit

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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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6 authors.

Daniel HanleyDepartment of Biology, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0523-4335
Mark E HauberGraduate Center of the City University of New York, Advanced Science Research Center and Programs in Biology and Psychology, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2014-4928
Mandë HolfordDepartment of Chemistry, Hunter College, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9476-2687
Collins MoyaMusumanene Farm, Choma, Zambia.
Claire N SpottiswoodeFitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Western Cape, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0003-3232-9559
Tanmay DixitFitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Western Cape, South Africa.ORCID 0000-0001-5604-7965

Funding

Research Center in Minority Institutions (RCMI) at City CollegeU54MD017979 · NIMHD · CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK · PI M. Felice Marina GHILARDI · 2024 to 2026
$15.9M
Human Frontier Science ProgramJesus College, CambridgeNIMHD NIH HHS U54 MD017979Royal Society
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The precise mimicry of host eggshell colours and patterns by some obligate avian brood parasites provides a powerful study system for understanding co-evolutionary arms races. However, most attention has focused on host behaviour in response to mimicry, rather than the proximate mechanisms that give rise to mimetic eggshell colours and patterns. In Africa, the cuckoo finch

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Biological MimicryBirdsEgg ShellPigmentationPigments, BiologicalAnimalsBiliverdineColorHost-Parasite InteractionsNesting BehaviorProtoporphyrinsBiliverdinePigments, BiologicalProtoporphyrinsavianbrood parasitismcoevolutioneggshell coloureggshells

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PMID40494396
PMCPMC12151605

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