Naïve hosts of avian brood parasites accept foreign eggs, whereas older hosts fine-tune foreign egg discrimination during laying

Host responses to interspecific brood parasitism: a by-product of adaptations to conspecific parasitism?

(2014) Peter Samas et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Host genotype and age have no effect on rejection of parasitic eggs

(2014) Petr Procházka et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN

Social learning of a brood parasite by its host

(2013) W. E. Feeney et al.   Biology Letters

Specific recognition of reproductive parasite workers by nest-entrance guards in the bumble bee Bombus terrestris

(2013) Pierre Blacher et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Do host species evolve a specific response to slave-making ants?

(2012) Olivier Delattre et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Cuckoos Combat Socially Transmitted Defenses of Reed Warbler Hosts with a Plumage Polymorphism

(2012) R. Thorogood et al.   SCIENCE

Cuckoos versus hosts in insects and birds: adaptations, counter-adaptations and outcomes

(2011) Rebecca M. Kilner et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

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

(2010) C. Moskat et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL 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

Rapid change in host use of the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus linked to climate change

(2010) A. P. Moller et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Climate change effects on migration phenology may mismatch brood parasitic cuckoos and their hosts

(2009) N. Saino et al.   Biology Letters

Social Transmission of a Host Defense Against Cuckoo Parasitism

(2009) N. B. Davies et al.   SCIENCE

Sex-specific defence behaviour against brood parasitism in a host with female-only incubation

(2008) Milica Požgayová et al.   BEHAVIOURAL PROCESSES

Moorhens have an internal representation of their own eggs

(2008) Marion Petrie et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN