Nest sanitation facilitates egg recognition in the common tailorbird, a plaintive cuckoo host

被引:2
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作者
Chang-Zhang Feng [1 ]
Can-Chao Yang [1 ]
Wei Liang [1 ]
机构
[1] Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Ecology of Tropical Islands, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University
基金
中国国家自然科学基金;
关键词
red; Nest sanitation facilitates egg recognition in the common tailorbird; a plaintive cuckoo host;
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中图分类号
Q958 [动物生态学和动物地理学];
学科分类号
071012 ; 0713 ;
摘要
DEAR EDITOR,Nest sanitation is a ubiquitous behavior in birds and functions to remove foreign objects that accidentally have fallen into their nests. In avian brood parasitism, the host’s ability to recognize and reject parasitic eggs is a specific anti-parasitic behavior. Previous studies have shown that egg recognition
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页码:466 / 470
页数:5
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