Rejection of parasitic eggs by Yellow-bellied Prinias: importance of egg spot location

Wang, LW; Hsu, YC; Liang, W

Liang, W (corresponding author), Hainan Normal Univ, Coll Life Sci, Minist Educ, Key Lab Ecol Trop Isl, Haikou 571158, Hainan, Peoples R China.

JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY, 2020; 161 (4): 987

Abstract

Characteristics of egg surfaces serve as recognition cues that allow avian hosts to detect and reject foreign eggs in brood parasitism. The blunt egg ......

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