Do common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) possess an optimal laying behaviour to match their own egg phenotype to that of their Oriental reed warbler (Acrocephalus orientalis) hosts?

Absence of egg rejection in an Asian population of house sparrow (Passer domesticus), a conspecific brood parasite in Europe

(2015) Canchao Yang et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Coevolution between the large hawk-cuckoo (Cuculus sparverioides) and its two sympatric Leiothrichidae hosts: evidence for recent expansion and switch in host use?

(2015) Canchao Yang et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Climate change and coevolution in the cuckoo–reed warbler system

(2015) Daniel Berkowic et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Why cuckoos should parasitize parrotbills by laying eggs randomly rather than laying eggs matching the egg appearance of parrotbill hosts?

(2015) Canchao Yang et al.   Avian Research

Nest sanitation behavior in hirundines as a pre-adaptation to egg rejection to counter brood parasitism

(2014) Canchao Yang et al.   ANIMAL COGNITION

Deficiency in egg rejection in a host species as a response to the absence of brood parasitism

(2014) C. Yang et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Pattern recognition algorithm reveals how birds evolve individual egg pattern signatures

(2014) Mary Caswell Stoddard et al.   Nature Communications

Brood parasites lay eggs matching the appearance of host clutches

(2013) M. Honza et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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

(2012) Anton Antonov et al.   PLoS One

Cuckoo adaptations: trickery and tuning

(2011) N.B. Davies   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY