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Evolution of Short Incubation Periods in the Parasitic Cowbirds, Molothrus spp
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This article is published in The Auk.The article was published on 1990-10-01. It has received 70 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Incubation.read more
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Geographic variation in avian incubation periods and parental influences on embryonic temperature
Thomas E. Martin,Sonya K. Auer,Sonya K. Auer,Ronald D. Bassar,Ronald D. Bassar,Alina M. Niklison,Penn Lloyd,Penn Lloyd +7 more
TL;DR: Geographic variation in embryonic development may reflect more complex interactions than previously recognized, and incubation periods of transferred eggs did not match host species and reflect intrinsic differences among species that may result from nest predation and other selection pressures.
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Hatching asynchrony, nestling competition, and the cost of interspecific brood parasitism
Mark E. Hauber,Mark E. Hauber +1 more
TL;DR: Although hatching asynchrony is an important cause of the reduction of host broods in parasitized clutches, competitive features of cowbird nestlings remain necessary to explain the full extent of hosts' reproductive costs caused by interspecific brood parasitism.
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Advances in the Study of Coevolution Between Avian Brood Parasites and Their Hosts
TL;DR: The evolution and phylogenetic history of avian brood parasitism is discussed, and coevolved adaptations and counteradaptations in brood parasites and hosts at all stages of the host nesting cycle are examined.
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Multiple effects of brood parasitism reduce the reproductive success of prothonotary warblers, Protonotaria citrea
TL;DR: Prothonotary warblers are studied to quantify the effects of different intensities of brood parasitism by brown-headed cowbirds, Molothrus ater on the production of host and cowbird young and on the between-year returns of adult warblers.
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Brood-parasite interactions between great spotted cuckoos and magpies: a model system for studying coevolutionary relationships.
Juan José Soler,Manuel Soler +1 more
TL;DR: Novel coevolutionary insights emerge from the synthesis of the literature, including how the evolution of "Mafia" behaviour in cuckoos does not necessarily inhibit the development of host recognition and rejection of cuckoo offspring, and how different populations of black-billed magpies in Europe have evolved specific host traits as a result of interactions with the great spotted cuckOO.
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Cuckoos versus reed warblers: Adaptations and counteradaptations
TL;DR: Reed warblers did not discriminate against unlike chicks (another species) and did not favour either a cuckoo chick or their own chicks when these were placed in two nests side by side and experiments showed that host discrimination selects for egg mimicry by cuckoos.
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The Avian Egg: Incubation Time and Water Loss
Hermann Rahn,Amos Ar +1 more
TL;DR: Other correlates of egg size such as the gas conductance of the egg shell and particularly the water loss properties of eggs, problems which Heinroth had already mentioned some 50 years ago in his classical treatise on incubation time are analyzed.
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Recent developments in the analysis of comparative data
Mark Pagel,Paul H. Harvey +1 more
TL;DR: With current knowledge of phylogenies, there is a trade-off in the choice of a comparative method: those that control phylogenetic effects with greater certainty are either less applicable to real data, or they make restrictive or untestable assumptions.