Acoustic overtones improve the discrimination of conspecific female calls by male common cuckoos from similar heterospecific calls
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DOI: 10.1007/s10071-025-01966-x
Abstract: Acoustic communication in obligate brood parasitic common cuckoos (Cuculus canorus) plays an important role both in social contacts within its own and with other species (including its many hosts). For example, the female cuckoo’s bubbling… read more here.
Keywords: cuckoos; female; heterospecific calls; call ... See more keywords
Coevolution with hosts underpins speciation in brood-parasitic cuckoos
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DOI: 10.1126/science.adj3210
Abstract: Coevolution between interacting species is thought to increase biodiversity, but evidence linking microevolutionary processes to macroevolutionary patterns is scarce. We leveraged two decades of behavioral research coupled with historical DNA analysis to reveal that coevolution… read more here.
Keywords: brood parasitic; speciation; cuckoos; coevolution ... See more keywords
Genomic architecture of egg mimicry and its consequences for speciation in parasitic cuckoos.
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DOI: 10.1126/science.adt9355
Abstract: Host-parasite arms races facilitate rapid evolution and can fuel speciation. Cuculus cuckoos are deceptive egg mimics that exhibit a broad diversity of counterfeit egg phenotypes, representing host-adapted subpopulations (gentes). Genome analysis of 298 common (Cuculus… read more here.
Keywords: speciation; cuckoos; architecture egg; genomic architecture ... See more keywords