supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.32270526 to WL,32260253 to LW and 32101242 to LM)。
The Oriental Reed Warbler(Acrocephalus orientalis)is one of the most commonly used hosts for the parasitic Common Cuckoo(Cuculus canorus).However,as hosts that feed unrelated parasitic nestlings may suffer extra repro...
financially supported by the Hungarian National Research,Development and Innovation Office(NKFIH,grant K132490 to AL and grant PD142106 to IP);by the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network(grant 16007 to AL);by the Sustainable Development and Technologies National Programme of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences(NP2022-II-6/2022)。
Sex-biased mortality can occur in birds during development,for example due to sexual differences in energy requirement and/or environmental sensitivity,or the effects of sex hormones or sex differences in the expressi...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.31970427 and 32270526 to WL);supported by the specific research fund of The Innovation Platform for Academicians of Hainan Province
Most studies exploring abilities of hosts to detect brood parasitism are based on detecting colour and/or pattern differences among parasitic and host eggs or nestlings,while only few were focused on size differences....
The study was carried out with the permission of the regional government of Castilla y Leon,Direccion General del Medio Natural,Servicio de Espacios Naturales.Research was funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy,Industry,and Competitiveness through projects CGL2007-61395,CGL2010-15726,CGL2013-42451-P;PID2019-109685GB-I00 of the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation;G.G.L.was supported by a FPU fellowship of the Spanish Ministry of Science,Innovation and Universities(FPU19/06511);A.S.A.was supported by a Ramon y Cajal fellowship of the Spanish Ministry of Science(RYC-2017-22796).
Variation in offspring sex ratios is a central topic in animal demography and population dynamics.Most studies have focused on bird species with marked sexual dimorphism and multiple-nestling broods,where the offsprin...
supported by projects CGL2009-12753-C02-01/BOS,CGL2010-15726,and PID2019-109685GB-I100 of the Spanish Ministry of Science,Innovation and Universities.
Anthropogenic stressors can favor the occurrence of noninfectious disease that can be worsened by the impact of opportunistic pathogens,making the epizootiology of environmental diseases difficult to unravel.The incid...
supported by institutional funding from the Universitàdegli Studi di Milano(to D.R.),Universitàdegli Studi di Padova(to C.S.),and the Istituto Nazionale per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale(ISPRA)(to J.G.C.).Nest-boxes were installed with support from the European Commission through the LIFE Project“Rapaci Lucani”(LIFE05NAT/IT/00009)and were designed by G.Ceccolini.
Costs and benefits of brain lateralization may depend on environmental conditions.Growing evidence indicates that the development of brain functional asymmetries is adaptively shaped by the environmental conditions ex...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant 31870370);Guangxi 1000 Young and Middle-Aged College and University Backbone Teachers Cultivation Program(2019.5)。
Begging brings benefits and costs for nestling birds:it can indicate their needs to their parents,but it can also be a cue used by predators to find the nest.The costs,like many variables related to nest predation,can...
supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Grant(DP180100021,DP150101652);the Holsworth Grant,Australia&Pacific Science Foundation(APSF1406);Birdlife Australia(2015).
Coevolutionary interactions between avian brood parasites and their hosts often lead to the evolution of discrimination and rejection of parasite eggs or chicks by hosts based on visual cues,and the evolution of visua...
provided by Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(320CXTD437 and 2019RC189 to CY);National Natural Science Foundation of China(31672303 to CY);Hainan Provincial Innovative Research Program for Graduates(Hyb2020-48 to PY)。
Studies on breeding biology enable us to broaden our understanding of the evolution of life history strategies.We studied the breeding biology of the Green-backed Tit(Parus monticolus)to provide comprehensive data on ...
This study was funded by the National Science Centre,Poland:NCN 2012/05/E/NZ8/02694 and NCN 2016/23/B/NZ8/03082;the Japan Society for Promotion of Science(JSPS):grant no.24-4578(to N.J.S.);24770028(to K.D.T.),23255004(to K.U.);by Rikkyo University:SFR 11-54(to N.J.S.).
Nestling rejection is a rare type of host defense against brood parasitism compared with egg rejection.Theoretically,host defenses at both egg and nestling stages could be based on similar underlying discrimination me...