Brood parasitism by the cuckoo on patchy reed warbler populations in Britain

Lindholm, Anna K.

doi:10.1046/j.1365-2656.1999.00286.x

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“…However, Møller and Soler (2012) recently reviewed the literature on consistency in host responses to brood parasites and found large intraspecific variation in resistance in several host species (Cruz and Wiley 1989;Nakamura 1990;Soler 1990;Soler and Møller 1990;Briskie et al 1992;Lindholm 1999;Soler, Martínez, et al 1999;Moskát et al 2002;Martín-Gálvez et al 2006Moskát et al 2008;Stokke et al 2008;Avilés et al 2011;Soler et al 2011;Langmore et al 2012). These studies indicate that speciesspecific consistency in resistance is far from the rule.…”

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Geographic variation in egg ejection rate by great tits across 2 continents

Liang

Møller

Stokke

et al. 2016

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Geographic variation in egg ejection rate by great tits across 2 continents

Liang

Møller

Stokke

et al. 2016

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“…Many hosts have evolved strategies to reduce the costs of parasitism Takasu et al, 1998;Schulze-Hagen et al, 2009). One of the most prevalent adaptations against brood parasitism is egg rejection, showing individual , sex-related (Palomino et al, 1998;Soler et al, 2002;Honza et al, 2007b;Pozgayová et al, 2009), population (Lindholm, 1999;Stokke et al, 2007a) and species-specific variability Davies and Brooke, 1989;Moksnes et al, 1991;Røskaft et al, 2002;Servedio and Hauber, 2006). Eggshell characteristics (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

Discordancy or template-based recognition? Dissecting the cognitive basis of the rejection of foreign eggs in hosts of avian brood parasites

Moskát

Bán

Székely

et al. 2010

Journal of Experimental Biology

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SUMMARYMany avian hosts have evolved antiparasite defence mechanisms, including egg rejection, to reduce the costs of brood parasitism. The two main alternative cognitive mechanisms of egg discrimination are thought to be based on the perceived discordancy of eggs in a clutch or the use of recognition templates by hosts. Our experiments reveal that the great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus), a host of the common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus), relies on both mechanisms. In support of the discordancy mechanism, hosts rejected their own eggs (13%) and manipulated ('parasitic') eggs (27%) above control levels in experiments when manipulated eggs were in the majority but when clutches also included a minority of own eggs. Hosts that had the chance to observe the manipulated eggs daily just after laying did not show stronger rejection of manipulated eggs than when the eggs were manipulated at clutch completion. When clutches contained only manipulated eggs, in 33% of the nests hosts showed rejection, also supporting a mechanism of template-based egg discrimination. Rejection using a recognition template might be more advantageous because discordancy-based egg discrimination is increasingly error prone with higher rates of multiple parasitism.

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“…An additional factor that may contribute to the observation that egg discrimination may not necessarily be followed by rejection could be the low motivation of birds to reject (Lindholm, 1999). Cuckoo parasitism of Olivaceous Warblers has shown a decline from heavy (ca.…”

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Why do brood parasitic birds lay strong-shelled eggs?

Antonov¹,

Stokke²,

Fossøy³

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Brood parasitic birds constitute a model system for the study of coevolution. Such parasites are unique by having evolved unusually thick eggshells for their body size. Thick eggshells have been hypothesized to evolve as 1) a means of preventing damage to parasite eggs when the brood parasite lays its egg at a distance from the host clutch (the laying damage hypothesis); 2) a consequence of host puncture ejection (the puncture resistance hypothesis); 3) a means for the brood parasite to allocate calcium to development of a disproportionately large skeleto-muscular system in evicting parasite chicks (the chick vigour hypothesis); or 4) a means of protecting the cuckoo embryo from microorganisms in the nest of the host (the anti-bacterial protection hypothesis). Here we review the literature studying the evolutionary mechanisms promoting thick eggshells in avian brood parasites, and provide proposals for future studies to test their validity. Available data are insufficient to rigorously test exclusive predictions and assumptions of these not necessarily exclusive hypotheses, although the laying damage and the puncture resistance hypotheses seem to currently be the most well supported alternatives. We discuss how quantification of rejection modes (grasp ejection, puncture ejection and desertion) may disclose the validity of the puncture resistance hypothesis, and finally we provide perspectives for future research on testing this specific hypothesis.

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Brood parasitism by the cuckoo on patchy reed warbler populations in Britain

Cited by 60 publications

References 59 publications

Geographic variation in egg ejection rate by great tits across 2 continents

Geographic variation in egg ejection rate by great tits across 2 continents

Discordancy or template-based recognition? Dissecting the cognitive basis of the rejection of foreign eggs in hosts of avian brood parasites

Why do brood parasitic birds lay strong-shelled eggs?

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