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
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>x</sub> - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)
CEP classification
EG - Zoology
OECD FORD branch
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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
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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
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