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The common redstart as a suitable model to study cuckoo-host coevolution in a unique ecological context

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15310%2F16%3A33161952" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15310/16:33161952 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="http://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-016-0835-5" target="_blank" >http://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-016-0835-5</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0835-5" target="_blank" >10.1186/s12862-016-0835-5</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    The common redstart as a suitable model to study cuckoo-host coevolution in a unique ecological context

  • Original language description

    Background: Co-evolutionary arms-races result in spatio-temporally dynamic relationships between interacting species, e. g., brood parasites and their avian hosts. However, majority of avian co-evolutionary studies are limited to " snap-shots" of a single breeding season in an open-nesting host. In a long-term study (11 breeding seasons), we explored a unique system between the brood parasitic common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) and its host, the common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) which is exceptional among all cuckoo hosts due to being a cavity nester. Conditions in cavities are different from open nests, e. g., lower risks of predation, more favourable microclimate, increased risks of unsuccessful eviction of host offspring by the cuckoo nestling. Different conditions in cavities thus can be expected to shape parasite-host coevolution differently from what is typically studied in open nesting hosts. Results: In our highly parasitised nest-box population (32.5%, n = 569 nests) only 35.7% of cuckoo eggs were laid into the nest cup and incubated by redstarts. Host nests shifted availability to later into the breeding season from 2006 to 2016 and cuckoos followed this trend by also shifting their timing of parasitism. Although previous studies revealed that redstarts selectively eject experimental non-mimetic eggs (desertion was not a specific response to foreign eggs), the hosts never ejected naturally-laid cuckoo eggs or cuckoo eggs cross-fostered into naturally nonparasitised nests. We solve the long-standing debate about the origin of cuckoo eggs found on the nest rim: we gained the first direct video-recording evidence that eggs found on the nest rim were mislaid by parasites and not ejected by hosts.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

  • CEP classification

    EG - Zoology

  • OECD FORD branch

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/GAP506%2F12%2F2404" target="_blank" >GAP506/12/2404: Host-parasite interaction as an extreme form of parent-offspring conflict</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Others

  • Publication year

    2016

  • Confidentiality

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

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    BMC Evolutionary Biology

  • ISSN

    1471-2148

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    16

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    255

  • Country of publishing house

    GB - UNITED KINGDOM

  • Number of pages

    13

  • Pages from-to

    "255-1"-"255-13"

  • UT code for WoS article

    000389417700002

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database