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Coevolutionary arms race between a specialist brood parasite, the Screaming Cowbird, and its host, the Grayish Baywing
(Springer, 2019-10)
Interspecific brood parasites exploit the parental care of host species. This exploitation entails fitness costs for the hosts, which favor the evolution of antiparasitic defenses. Host defenses select for counter-defenses ...
Parasitic Behaviour of Interspecific Brood Parasitic Females
(Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2018)
Interspecific avian brood parasites have to solve unique problems associated with their reproductive habit: they need to recognize potential hosts, search for and locate their nests, monitor nests progress and return to ...
NEST REUSE AND COMMUNAL NESTING IN MICROTHURGE-CORUMBAE (HYMENOPTERA, MEGACHILIDAE), WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO NEST DEFENSE
(Birkhauser Verlag Ag, 1992-01-01)
Observations on the nesting activities of Microthurge corumbae, carried out at the University Campus of Ribeirao Preto, São Paulo, Brazil, from 1977 to 1981, indicated that 61.9% of nests were re-used by succeeding ...
NEST REUSE AND COMMUNAL NESTING IN MICROTHURGE-CORUMBAE (HYMENOPTERA, MEGACHILIDAE), WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO NEST DEFENSE
(Birkhauser Verlag Ag, 1992-01-01)
Observations on the nesting activities of Microthurge corumbae, carried out at the University Campus of Ribeirao Preto, São Paulo, Brazil, from 1977 to 1981, indicated that 61.9% of nests were re-used by succeeding ...
Lack of effect of microhabitat charaacteristics on nest predation and brood parasitims in creamy-bellied thruss (Turdus Amaurochalinus)
(Neotropical Ornithological Society, 2013-11)
Nest predation and brood parasitism are key factors affecting nest survival in passerine birds. As a result, birds may select nest sites that minimize the probability of nests being found by predators or by brood parasites. ...
More than just nestlings: incidence of subcutaneous Philornis (Diptera: Muscidae) nest flies in adult birds
(Springer, 2020-06)
Philornis flies Meinert (Diptera: Muscidae) have been documented parasitizing over 250 bird species, some of which are endemic species threatened with extinction. Philornis parasitism is hypothesized to affect nestlings ...
Notas sobre a socialidade e a biologia de nidificação de Trypoxylon (Trypoxylon) asuncicola Strand, 1910 (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae)
(Revista Brasileira de Entomologia, 2019)
How many parasites species a frog might have? determinants of parasite diversity in South American anurans
(Public Library Science, 2015)
There is an increasing interest in unveiling the dynamics of parasite infection. Understanding the interaction patterns, and determinants of host-parasite association contributes to filling knowledge gaps in both community ...
Botfly parasitism effects on nestling growth and mortality of Red-crested Cardinals
(Wilson Ornithological Society, 2011-03)
We collected observational data in three consecutive breeding seasons to study interactions between the botfly Philornis seguyi and Red-crested Cardinals (Paroaria coronata) in a temperate zone near the southern limit of ...
Experimental evidence for an antipredatory function of egg rejection behaviour in a common host of the brood-parasitic shiny cowbird
(Springer, 2016-10)
Abstract: The rejection of foreign eggs is the most effective adaptation against brood parasitism in birds. Many hosts, however, show suboptimal responses towards parasitic eggs, which could reflect a compromise between ...