Genetic evidence for female host-specific races of the common cuckoo

The common cuckoo Cuculus canorus is divided into host-specific races (gentes). Females of each race lay a distinctive egg type that tends to match the host's eggs, for instance, brown and spotted for meadow pipit hosts or plain blue for redstart hosts. The puzzle is how these gentes remain dis...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Nature (London) 2000-09, Vol.407 (6801), p.183-186
Hauptverfasser:	Gibbs, H. Lisle, Sorenson, Michael D, Marchetti, Karen, de L. Brooke, M, Davies, N. B, Nakamura, Hiroshi
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Animal and plant ecology Animal reproduction Animal, plant and microbial ecology Animals Autoecology Aves Behavior, Animal Biological and medical sciences Biological Evolution Birds Birds - genetics Birds - physiology Classical genetics, quantitative genetics, hybrids Cuculus canorus Deoxyribonucleic acid DNA DNA, Mitochondrial Eggs Female Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology Gene Frequency Genetics Genetics of eukaryotes. Biological and molecular evolution Haplotypes Host-Parasite Interactions Humanities and Social Sciences letter Male Meadows Mitochondrial DNA multidisciplinary Reproduction Science Science (multidisciplinary) Sexes Vertebrata
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