Egg discrimination along a gradient of natural variation in eggshell coloration

Ancient origin and maternal inheritance of blue cuckoo eggs

(2016) Frode Fossøy et al.   Nature Communications

Mimicry and masquerade from the avian visual perspective

(2016) Mary Caswell Stoddard   Current Zoology

Not so colourful after all: eggshell pigments constrain avian eggshell colour space

(2015) D. Hanley et al.   Biology Letters

The Value of Artificial Stimuli in Behavioral Research: Making the Case for Egg Rejection Studies in Avian Brood Parasitism

(2015) Márk E. Hauber et al.   ETHOLOGY

The Limits of Artificial Stimuli in Behavioral Research: The Umwelt Gamble

(2015) David C. Lahti   ETHOLOGY

Now you see it, now you don't: flushing hosts prior to experimentation can predict their responses to brood parasitism

(2015) Daniel Hanley et al.   Scientific Reports

Using 3D printed eggs to examine the egg-rejection behaviour of wild birds

(2015) Branislav Igic et al.   PeerJ

Multivariate and Propensity Score Matching Software with Automated Balance Optimization: TheMatchingPackage forR

(2015) Jasjeet S. Sekhon   Journal of Statistical Software

Advances in the Study of Coevolution Between Avian Brood Parasites and Their Hosts

(2014) William E. Feeney et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

The repeatability of avian egg ejection behaviors across different temporal scales, breeding stages, female ages and experiences

(2014) Tomáš Grim et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Self-Recognition Mechanism between Skin and Suckers Prevents Octopus Arms from Interfering with Each Other

(2014) Nir Nesher et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

(2014) Csaba Moskát et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

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

(2014) Peter Samas et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Spectral tuning and perceptual differences do not explain the rejection of brood parasitic eggs by American robins (Turdus migratorius)

(2013) Rebecca Croston et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The Categorisation of Non-Categorical Colours: A Novel Paradigm in Colour Perception

(2013) Simon J. Cropper et al.   PLoS One

Repeated Brood Parasitism by Brown-Headed Cowbirds (Molothrus ater) at Nesting Sites of Eastern Phoebes (Sayornis phoebe) across Non-consecutive Years

(2013) Gretchen F. Wagner et al.   Wilson Journal of Ornithology

Repeated targeting of the same hosts by a brood parasite compromises host egg rejection

(2013) Martin Stevens et al.   Nature Communications

Host-Parasite Arms Races and Rapid Changes in Bird Egg Appearance

(2012) Claire N. Spottiswoode et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Conditional response by hosts to parasitic eggs: the extreme case of the rufous-tailed scrub robin

(2012) M. Soler et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Preserving perceptual distances in chromaticity diagrams

(2012) Thomas W. Pike   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Attractive blue-green egg coloration and cuckoo−host coevolution

(2012) JUAN J. SOLER et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Parents, predators, parasites, and the evolution of eggshell colour in open nesting birds

(2012) Daniel Hanley et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Model Systems of Invertebrate Allorecognition

(2011) Rafael D. Rosengarten et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

(2011) Mary Caswell Stoddard et al.   EVOLUTION

Constraints on host choice: why do parasitic birds rarely exploit some common potential hosts?

(2011) Tomáš Grim et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

How to evade a coevolving brood parasite: egg discrimination versus egg variability as host defences

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

Absence of egg discrimination in a suitable cuckoo Cuculus canorus host breeding away from trees

(2010) Anton Antonov et al.   JOURNAL OF AVIAN BIOLOGY

Prevention of Catheter-Related Bacteremia with a Daily Ethanol Lock in Patients with Tunnelled Catheters: A Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Trial

(2010) Lennert Slobbe 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

Pattern mimicry of host eggs by the common cuckoo, as seen through a bird's eye

(2010) M. C. Stoddard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Social Transmission of a Host Defense Against Cuckoo Parasitism

(2009) N. B. Davies et al.   SCIENCE

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

(2008) P. Cassey et al.   Biology Letters

Neural correlates, computation and behavioural impact of decision confidence

(2008) Adam Kepecs et al.   NATURE