Individual experience as a key to success for the cuckoo catfish brood parasitism.
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DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-29417-y
Abstract: Brood parasites are involved in coevolutionary arms races with their hosts, whereby adaptations of one partner elicit the rapid evolution of counter-adaptations in the other partner. Hosts can also mitigate fitness costs of brood parasitism… read more here.
Keywords: parasitism; brood; brood parasites; experience ... See more keywords
Conspecific brood parasites can also help us understand the evolution of tolerance: a comment on Avilés
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DOI: 10.1093/beheco/ary004
Abstract: Hayward AD, Nussey DH, Wilson AJ, Berenos C, Pilkington JG, Watt KA, Pemberton JM, Graham AL. 2014. Natural selection on individual variation in tolerance of gastrointestinal nematode infection. PLoS Biol. 12:e1001917. Medina I, Langmore NE.… read more here.
Keywords: brood parasites; evolution; conspecific brood; tolerance ... See more keywords
Bacterial gut microbiomes of aculeate brood parasites overlap with their aculeate hosts', but have higher diversity and specialization.
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DOI: 10.1093/femsec/fiac137
Abstract: Despite growing interest in gut microbiomes of aculeate Hymenoptera, research so far focused on social bees, wasps and ants, whereas non-social taxa and their brood parasites have not received much attention. Brood parasitism however allows… read more here.
Keywords: brood; bacterial gut; brood parasites; host ... See more keywords