Are Cuckoos Maximizing Egg Mimicry by Selecting Host Individuals with Better Matching Egg Phenotypes?

Sexual selection based on egg colour: physiological models and egg discrimination experiments in a cavity-nesting bird

(2011) Jesús M. Avilés et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Outcomes of Brood Parasite–Host Interactions Mediated by Egg Matching: Common Cuckoos Cuculus canorus versus Fringilla Finches

(2011) Johan Reinert Vikan et al.   PLoS One

Egg phenotype differentiation in sympatric cuckoo Cuculus canorus gentes

(2010) A. ANTONOV et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The common cuckoo Cuculus canorus is not locally adapted to its reed warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus host

(2010) J. M. AVILÉS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Coevolution in Action: Disruptive Selection on Egg Colour in an Avian Brood Parasite and Its Host

(2010) Canchao Yang et al.   PLoS One

Visual modeling shows that avian host parents use multiple visual cues in rejecting parasitic eggs

(2010) C. N. Spottiswoode et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Common Cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) Do Not Rely on Indicators of Parental Abilities When Searching for Host Nests: The Importance of Host Defenses

(2009) Jesús M. Avilés et al.   AUK

Are avian eggshell colours effective intraspecific communication signals in the Muscicapoidea? A perceptual modelling approach

(2009) PHILLIP CASSEY et al.   IBIS

Avian colour perception predicts behavioural responses to experimental brood parasitism in chaffinches

(2009) J. M. AVILÉS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Dark Nests and Conspicuousness in Color Patterns of Nestlings of Altricial Birds

(2008) Jesús M. Avilés et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

The modelling of avian visual perception predicts behavioural rejection responses to foreign egg colours

(2008) P. Cassey et al.   Biology Letters

Choosing suitable hosts: common cuckoos Cuculus canorus parasitize great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus of high quality

(2008) Lenka Polačiková et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Common Cuckoo Cuculus canorus and host behaviour at Reed Warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus nests

(2008) ARNE MOKSNES et al.   IBIS