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SUBMITTER: Attisano A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6037703 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Attisano Alfredo A Sato Nozomu J NJ Tanaka Keita D KD Okahisa Yuji Y Kuehn Ralph R Gula Roman R Ueda Keisuke K Theuerkauf Jörn J
Scientific reports 20180709 1
Mimicry by avian brood parasites favours uniformity over variation within a breeding attempt as host defence against parasitism. In a cuckoo-host system from New Caledonia, the arms race resulted in both host (Gerygone flavolateralis) and parasite (Chalcites lucidus) having nestlings of two discrete skin colour phenotypes, bright and dark. In our study sites, host nestlings occurred in monomorphic and polymorphic broods, whereas cuckoo nestlings only occurred in the bright morph. Irrespective of ...[more]