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Egg characteristics affecting egg rejection

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68081766%3A_____%2F17%3A00499563" target="_blank" >RIV/68081766:_____/17:00499563 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Result on the web

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73138-4_22" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73138-4_22</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-73138-4_22" target="_blank" >10.1007/978-3-319-73138-4_22</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Egg characteristics affecting egg rejection

  • Original language description

    We have reviewed the most important results relating to particular egg characteristics responsible for recognition and subsequent rejection by hosts of brood parasites. Hosts remove a foreign egg after determining that it differs in one or more parameters. In turn, brood parasites have often evolved various mechanisms to confuse host defences and prevent egg recognition. The most conspicuous one is egg mimicry—imitation of the appearance of host eggs. We evaluate and discuss egg rejection experiments, particularly from a historical perspective, and the use of cameras in experiments. Further, we describe assessments of egg mimicry, and in particular we focus on the role played by particular characteristics in discrimination including egg colour, spottiness, chromatic versus achromatic cues, the role of UV spectra, the blunt egg pole, and the shape and volume of the parasitic egg. In addition, we discuss how research methodology and the application of experimental approaches to studying avian vision have affected studies on egg discrimination.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    C - Chapter in a specialist book

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10615 - Ornithology

Result continuities

  • Project

  • Continuities

    I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Others

  • Publication year

    2017

  • Confidentiality

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

Data specific for result type

  • Book/collection name

    Avian brood parasitism

  • ISBN

    978-3-319-73137-7

  • Number of pages of the result

    19

  • Pages from-to

    401-419

  • Number of pages of the book

    574

  • Publisher name

    Springer

  • Place of publication

    Cham

  • UT code for WoS chapter

    000456459900024