Keeping eggs warm: thermal and developmental advantages for parasitic cuckoos of laying unusually thick-shelled eggs

Eggshells as hosts of bacterial communities: An experimental test of the antimicrobial egg coloration hypothesis

(2017) Donald C. Dearborn et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Egg recognition as antiparasitism defence in hosts does not select for laying of matching eggs in parasitic cuckoos

(2016) Canchao Yang et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Brood parasite and host eggshells undergo similar levels of decalcification during embryonic development

(2016) B. Igic et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

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?

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

Consistency of passerine embryo development and the use of embryonic staging in studies of hatching failure

(2015) Nicola Hemmings et al.   IBIS

First light for avian embryos: eggshell thickness and pigmentation mediate variation in development and UV exposure in wild bird eggs

(2014) Golo Maurer et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Rapid development of brood-parasitic cuckoo embryos cannot be explained by increased gas exchange through the eggshell

(2014) S. J. Portugal et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Ecological, evolutionary, and conservation implications of incubation temperature-dependent phenotypes in birds

(2013) Sarah E. DuRant et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Long-term coevolution between avian brood parasites and their hosts

(2013) Manuel Soler   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

A brood parasite selects for its own egg traits

(2013) C. N. Spottiswoode   Biology Letters

Comparison of eggshell porosity and estimated gas flux between the brown-headed cowbird and two common hosts

(2012) W. B. Jaeckle et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Brood parasitism is associated with increased bacterial contamination of host eggs: bacterial loads of host and parasitic eggs

(2011) JUAN J. SOLER et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Alternative mechanisms of increased eggshell hardness of avian brood parasites relative to host species

(2011) B. Igic et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

Cuckoo adaptations: trickery and tuning

(2011) N.B. Davies   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

The analysis of common cuckoo's egg shape in relation to its hosts' in two geographically distant areas

(2011) M. Bán et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Brood parasitism selects for no defence in a cuckoo host

(2011) O. Kruger   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Eggshell characteristics and yolk composition in the common cuckooCuculus canorus: are they adapted to brood parasitism?

(2010) Rita Hargitai et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

The evolution of host-specific variation in cuckoo eggshell strength

(2010) C. N. SPOTTISWOODE   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Comparison of micrometer- and scanning electron microscope-based measurements of avian eggshell thickness

(2010) Branislav Igic et al.   JOURNAL OF FIELD ORNITHOLOGY

Internal incubation and early hatching in brood parasitic birds

(2010) T. R. Birkhead et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Evidence for egg discrimination preceding failed rejection attempts in a small cuckoo host

(2009) A. Antonov et al.   Biology Letters

Does the cuckoo benefit from laying unusually strong eggs?

(2008) Anton Antonov et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Eggshell strength in cuckoos and cowbirds

(2008) M. G. BROOKER et al.   IBIS