Keeping eggs warm: thermal and developmental advantages for parasitic cuckoos of laying unusually thick-shelled eggs

Yang, CC; Huang, QL; Wang, LW; Du, WG; Liang, W; Moller, AP

Liang, W (reprint author), Hainan Normal Univ, Coll Life Sci, Minist Educ, Key Lab Ecol Trop Islands, Haikou 571158, Hainan, Peoples R China.

SCIENCE OF NATURE, 2018; 105 (1-2):

Abstract

Obligate brood parasites have evolved unusually thick-shelled eggs, which are hypothesized to possess a variety of functions such as resistance to pun......

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