Host-Parasite Arms Races and Rapid Changes in Bird Egg Appearance
@article{Spottiswoode2012HostParasiteAR, title={Host-Parasite Arms Races and Rapid Changes in Bird Egg Appearance}, author={C. Spottiswoode and M. Stevens}, journal={The American Naturalist}, year={2012}, volume={179}, pages={633 - 648} }
Coevolutionary arms races are a powerful force driving evolution, adaptation, and diversification. They can generate phenotypic polymorphisms that render it harder for a coevolving parasite or predator to exploit any one individual of a given species. In birds, egg polymorphisms should be an effective defense against mimetic brood parasites and are extreme in the African tawny-flanked prinia (Prinia subflava) and its parasite, the cuckoo finch (Anomalospiza imberbis). Here we use models of… Expand
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