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egg rejection: a standalone construct

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eggrejection1 CONSTRUCTEgg rejectionROTHSTEIN · BEHAVIOURAL

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Behavioural ecology

removal or desertion of a foreign egg by hosts of brood parasites, a key defence in host-parasite coevolution.

In behavioural ecology, egg rejection refers to removal or desertion of a foreign egg by hosts of brood parasites, a key defence in host-parasite coevolution. This meaning comes from Rothstein (1990) in Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics.[1]

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brood1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructcoevolution3 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, three constructsdesertion1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

  1. Rothstein, S. I. (1990). A Model System for Coevolution: Avian Brood Parasitism. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, 21(1), 481-508. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.es.21.110190.002405

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