Investigations of evolutionary arms races and host diversity in avian brood parasite systems.

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Investigations of evolutionary arms races and host diversity in avian brood parasite systems.

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Obligate brood parasites rely solely on other species, the hosts, to incubate their eggs and raise their offspring, which often reduces the host’s reproductive output. This reproductive cost has led to the evolution of anti-parasite adaptations among hosts, which in turn, has led to better trickery by parasites, a process termed an evolutionary arms race. The objective of this thesis was to investigate host-parasite coevolutionary arms races to address questions of host-use diversity. Host di...

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Thesis

Thesis level

Doctoral

Date created

2013

Creator

Rasmussen, Justin Lee

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http://hdl.handle.net/10092/8959

Related subjects

brood parasitism / coevolution / host / parasite / shining cuckoo / grey warbler / red-winged blackbird / brown-headed cowbird / olfaction

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