Rearing a virulent common cuckoo is not extra costly for its only cavity-nesting host
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15310%2F18%3A73592370" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15310/18:73592370 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/68081766:_____/18:00495839
Result on the web
<a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2018.1710" target="_blank" >https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2018.1710</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1710" target="_blank" >10.1098/rspb.2018.1710</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Rearing a virulent common cuckoo is not extra costly for its only cavity-nesting host
Original language description
Virulent brood parasites refrain from arduous parental care, often kill host progeny and inflict rearing costs upon their hosts. Quantifying the magnitude of such costs across the whole period of care (from incubation through to parasite fledgling independence) is essential for understanding the selection pressures on hosts to evolve antiparasitic defences. Despite the central importance of such costs for our understanding of coevolutionary dynamics, they have not yet been comprehensively quantified in any host of any avian brood parasite. We quantified parasite-rearing costs in common redstarts Phoenicurus phoenicitrus raising either parasitic common cuckoo Cuculus canorus or their own chicks throughout the complete breeding cycle, and used multiple cost parameters for each breeding stage: incubation, brooding and feeding effort; length of parental/host care; parent/host body condition; and heterophil/lymphocyte ratio (stress-level indicator). Contrary to traditional assumptions, rearing the parasite per se was not associated with overall higher physiological or physical costs to hosts above the natural levels imposed by efforts to rear their own progeny. The low parasite-rearing costs imposed on hosts may, in part, explain the low levels of known host counter-defences in this unusually frequently parasitized cuckoo host.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10615 - Ornithology
Result continuities
Project
Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2018
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
ISSN
0962-8452
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
285
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1889
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
"20181710-1"-"20181710-10"
UT code for WoS article
000448380800010
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85055602115