Communal breeding: clever defense against cheats.Comments Comment on: Curr Biol. 2010 Oct 26;20(20):1830-3; PMID: 20888229

摘要

High levels of conspecific brood parasitism are found in a communally breeding bird, with implications for the evolutionary links between brood parasitism and communal breeding. It also uncovers a novel egg recognition mechanism hosts use to foil brood parasites.