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

Brood exchange experiments and chemical analyses shed light on slave rebellion in ants

(2010) Alexandra Achenbach et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Personal immunity versus social immunity

(2010) S. C. Cotter et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Clutch Abandonment by Parasitized Yellow Warblers: Egg Burial or Nest Desertion?

(2010) Mélanie F. Guigueno et al.   CONDOR

Intra-specific body size variation in Polistes paper wasps as a response to social parasite pressure

(2010) IRENE ORTOLANI et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

The coevolutionary arms race between Horsfield's Bronze-Cuckoos and Superb Fairy-wrens

(2010) N. E. Langmore et al.   EMU

Evolution of defences against cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) parasitism in bramblings (Fringilla montifringilla): a comparison of four populations in Fennoscandia

(2010) Johan Reinert Vikan et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Mangrove Gerygones Gerygone laevigaster eject Little Bronze-cuckoo Chalcites minutillus hatchlings from parasitized nests

(2010) KIHOKO TOKUE et al.   IBIS

Host Specific Social Parasites (Psithyrus) Indicate Chemical Recognition System in Bumblebees

(2010) Stephen J. Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

The evolution of host-specific variation in cuckoo eggshell strength

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

Learn to beat an identity cheat

(2010) Rebecca Kilner   NATURE

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

Resistance and tolerance in animal enemy–victim coevolution

(2010) Erik I. Svensson et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Are dark cuckoo eggs cryptic in host nests?

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

Repellent effect on host Formica workers of queen Dufour's gland secretion of the obligatory social parasite ant, Polyergus samurai (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2009) Yousuke Tsuneoka et al.   APPLIED ENTOMOLOGY AND ZOOLOGY

Flexible cuckoo chick-rejection rules in the superb fairy-wren

(2009) Naomi E. Langmore et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY

Why do Horsfield’s bronze-cuckoo Chalcites basalis eggs mimic those of their hosts?

(2009) N. E. Langmore et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

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

(2009) A. Antonov et al.   Biology Letters

Evicting cuckoo nestlings from the nest: a new anti-parasitism behaviour

(2009) N. J. Sato et al.   Biology Letters

Strategic Variation in Mobbing as a Front Line of Defense against Brood Parasitism

(2009) Justin A. Welbergen et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Locally adapted social parasite affects density, social structure, and life history of its ant hosts

(2009) Susanne Foitzik et al.   ECOLOGY

FIRST EVIDENCE FOR SLAVE REBELLION: ENSLAVED ANT WORKERS SYSTEMATICALLY KILL THE BROOD OF THEIR SOCIAL PARASITEPROTOMOGNATHUS AMERICANUS

(2009) Alexandra Achenbach et al.   EVOLUTION

An ant social parasite in-between two chemical disparate host species

(2009) Sabine Bauer et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

A Review of Ant Cuticular Hydrocarbons

(2009) Stephen Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Avian colour perception predicts behavioural responses to experimental brood parasitism in chaffinches

(2009) J. M. AVILÉS et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Acoustical mimicry in a predatory social parasite of ants

(2009) F. Barbero et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Coots use hatch order to learn to recognize and reject conspecific brood parasitic chicks

(2009) Daizaburo Shizuka et al.   NATURE

Relaxed selection in the wild

(2009) David C. Lahti et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Does the cuckoo benefit from laying unusually strong eggs?

(2008) Anton Antonov et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Tactical reproductive parasitism via larval cannibalism in Peruvian poison frogs

(2008) J. L Brown et al.   Biology Letters

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

(2008) P. Cassey et al.   Biology Letters

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

(2008) Naomi E. Langmore et al.   EVOLUTION

Eggshell strength in cuckoos and cowbirds

(2008) M. G. BROOKER et al.   IBIS

EVOLUTION OF THE GENUS CHRYSOCOCCYX

(2008) S. Marchant   IBIS

Colony-specific Hydrocarbons Identify Nest Mates in Two Species of Formica Ant

(2008) Stephen J. Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL ECOLOGY

Is the social parasite Vespa dybowskii using chemical transparency to get her eggs accepted?

(2008) Stephen J. Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Maintenance of host variation in tolerance to pathogens and parasites

(2008) A. Best et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Egg colour mimicry in the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus as revealed by modelling host retinal function

(2008) J. M Aviles   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cuckoo-hawk mimicry? An experimental test

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

Natural Selection on a Major Armor Gene in Threespine Stickleback

(2008) R. D. H. Barrett et al.   SCIENCE