Perspectives and Debates: Mimicry, Signalling and Co-Evolution (Commentary on Wolfgang Wickler - Understanding Mimicry - With special reference to vocal mimicry)

Understanding Mimicry - with Special Reference to Vocal Mimicry

(2013) Wolfgang Wickler   ETHOLOGY

Why are birds' eggs colourful? Eggshell pigments co-vary with life-history and nesting ecology among British breeding non-passerine birds

(2012) PHILLIP CASSEY et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Embryonic Learning of Vocal Passwords in Superb Fairy-Wrens Reveals Intruder Cuckoo Nestlings

(2012) Diane Colombelli-Négrel et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Uncovering Dangerous Cheats: How Do Avian Hosts Recognize Adult Brood Parasites?

(2012) Alfréd Trnka et al.   PLoS One

A parasite in wolf's clothing: hawk mimicry reduces mobbing of cuckoos by hosts

(2011) Justin A. Welbergen et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

How colorful are birds? Evolution of the avian plumage color gamut

(2011) Mary Caswell Stoddard et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

AVIAN VISION AND THE EVOLUTION OF EGG COLOR MIMICRY IN THE COMMON CUCKOO

(2011) Mary Caswell Stoddard et al.   EVOLUTION

Ejecting chick cheats: a changing paradigm?

(2011) Tomáš Grim   Frontiers in Zoology

A sum of its individual parts? Relative contributions of different eggshell regions to intraclutch variation in birds

(2011) Lenka Polačiková et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Visual mimicry of host nestlings by cuckoos

(2011) N. E. Langmore et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Blunt egg pole holds cues for alien egg discrimination: experimental evidence

(2010) L. Polačiková et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

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

Are dark cuckoo eggs cryptic in host nests?

(2009) N.E. Langmore et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Begging call matching between a specialist brood parasite and its host: a comparative approach to detect coevolution

(2009) MICHAEL G. ANDERSON et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Conspicuousness, not eye mimicry, makes "eyespots" effective antipredator signals

(2008) M. Stevens et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

SOCIALLY ACQUIRED HOST-SPECIFIC MIMICRY AND THE EVOLUTION OF HOST RACES IN HORSFIELD'S BRONZE-CUCKOOCHALCITES BASALIS

(2008) Naomi E. Langmore et al.   EVOLUTION

Cuckoo-hawk mimicry? An experimental test

(2008) N.B Davies et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES