Mimicry vs. similarity: which resemblances between brood parasites and their hosts are mimetic and which are not?

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Mimicry vs. similarity: which resemblances between brood parasites and their hosts are mimetic and which are not?

Original language description

Mimicry is one of the most conspicuous and puzzling phenomena in nature. The best known examples come from insects and brood parasitic birds. Unfortunately, the term "mimicry" is used indiscriminately and inconsistently in the brood parasitic literaturedespite the obvious fact that similarities of eggs, nestlings and adults of brood parasites to their hosts could result from many different processes (phylogenetic constraint, predation, intraspecific arms-races, vocal imitation, exploitation of pre-existing preferences etc.). In this note I wish to plead for a more careful use of the term. I review various processes leading to a similarity between propagules (both eggs and nestlings) of brood parasites and their hosts and stress that 1) mimetic and non-mimetic similarities should be differentiated, 2) a mere similarity of host and parasite propagules provides no evidence for mimicry, 3) mimicry is more usefully understood as a (co-evolutionary) process rather than an appearance and 4)

Czech name

Mimikry vs. podobnost: které podobnosti mezi hnízdními parazity a jejich hostiteli jsou mimetické a které nikoli?

Czech description

Mimikry nemusí být důkazem koevoluce, jak se běžně předpokládá v literatuře, ale mohou být výsledkem celé řady jiných mechanismů - fylogenetických omezení, využívání pře-existujících preferencí, hlasové imitace apod. Článek podává review a diskuzi těchtomechanismů.

Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

EG - Zoology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GP206%2F03%2FD234" target="_blank" >GP206/03/D234: Parent-offspring conflict in the context of coevolution between a brood parasite and its host</a><br>

Continuities

Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Publication year

2005

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

ISSN

0024-4066

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Volume of the periodical

84

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

69-78

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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