Fairy-wrens as a model system for studying cuckoo-host coevolution

Langmore, Naomi

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Fairy-wrens as a model system for studying cuckoo-host coevolution

Date

2013

Authors

Langmore, Naomi

Publisher

Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union

Abstract

Many malurids are major cuckoo hosts in Australia and provide an ideal opportunity to investigate cuckoo-host coevolution. Here, I (1) discuss why malurids provide a particularly tractable system for studies of cuckoo parasitism, (2) compare rates and pat