A shared chemical basis of avian host-parasite egg colour mimicry
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2012
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Igic, Branislav
Cassey, Phillip
Grim, Tomas
Greenwood, David R.
Moskat, Csaba
Rutila, Jarkko
Hauber, Mark E.
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Royal Society of London
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Avian brood parasites lay their eggs in other birds' nests and impose considerable fitness costs on their hosts. Historically and scientifically, the best studied example of circum-enting host defences is the mimicry of host eggshell colour by the common
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Keywords: biliverdin; pigment; protoporphyrin; avifauna; biochemical composition; bird; brood parasitism; coevolution; color; defense mechanism; eggshell; fitness; host-parasite interaction; mass spectrometry; mimicry; phenotype; physiology; pigment; similarity ind Eggshell coloration; Host-parasite similarity; Mass spectrometry
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B: Biological Sciences
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