Constraints on egg discrimination and cuckoo-host co-evolution
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...Thus, mothers and fathers contribute equally to the phenotype of their daughters’ eggs, which suggests that females can have no prior knowledge of the appearance of their eggs, and might explain why this must be learnt (Lotem et al., 1995; Lahti & Lahti, 2001)....
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...Responses of common cuckoo hosts to foreign eggs are highly sensitive to perceived risk of parasitism, including risk perception socially transmitted from conspecifics (26, 27)....
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...Learning also plays a powerful role in antiparasite defenses, including individual learningof ownegg appearance (26)....
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...A potential solution is that host discrimination varies with ambient food supply and/or the previous experience of individual host...
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...According to the ‘arms race’ hypothesis, the acceptance of parasitic eggs or nestlings is a maladaptive result of an evolutionary lag in the development of counter-adaptations by the host (Rothstein 1975a, 1982a; Dawkins & Krebs 1979; Davies & de L. Brooke 1988, 1989b; Moksnes et al. 1990)....
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...The co-existence of rejection and acceptance of cuckoo eggs within a host population has been commonly explained by the arms race model (Dawkins & Krebs 1979; Kelly 1987; Davies & de L. Brooke 1989b; Moksnes et al. 1990)....
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...The production of egg pigmentation may decrease in old age (Solomon 1991) and under stress (Welty 1975; Solomon 1991)....
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...Even at evolutionary equilibrium, cuckoo egg mimicry may still not be perfect if the range of variation of egg types in the host population is much larger than that of a particular female (Rothstein 1990)....
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...Among cuckoo hosts in Europe and Britain, local parasitism rates can be as high as 20% (Wyllie 1981; Cramp 1985; Davies & de L. Brooke 1988; Rothstein 1990), while the overall parasitism rate for a given species, as shown by the British nest record system, is only 1–6% (Davies & de L....
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...The alternative hypothesis of evolutionary equilibrium was previously considered but rejected in the absence of supporting evidence (Davies & de L. Brooke 1988, 1989b; Rothstein 1990; but see Moksnes et al. 1993)....
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...Numerous experimental studies have recently shown the existence of co-evolved adaptations in parasitic birds and their hosts, and have demonstrated the usefulness of brood parasitism as a model system for the study of co-evolution (reviewed by Rothstein 1990)....
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...Among cuckoo hosts in Europe and Britain, local parasitism rates can be as high as 20% (Wyllie 1981; Cramp 1985; Davies & de L. Brooke 1988; Rothstein 1990), while the overall parasitism rate for a given species, as shown by the British nest record system, is only 1–6% (Davies & de L. Brooke 1989b)....
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