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The common cuckoo Cuculus canorus is not locally adapted to its reed warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus host

SYSNO ASEP	0349223
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	The common cuckoo Cuculus canorus is not locally adapted to its reed warbler Acrocephalus scirpaceus host
Author(s)	Avilés, J. M. (ES) Vikan, J. R. (NO) Fossoy, F. (NO) Antonov, A. (NO) Moksnes, A. (NO) Roskaft, E. (NO) Shykoff, J.A. (FR) Moller, A. P. (NO) Jensen, H. (NO) Procházka, Petr (UBO-W)_{RID, ORCID, SAI} Stokke, B. G. (NO)
Number of authors	11
Source Title	Journal of Evolutionary Biology - ISSN 1010-061X Roč. 24, č. 2 (2011), s. 314-325
Number of pages	12 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	GB - United Kingdom
Keywords	coevolution ; geographical mosaic ; local adaptation ; mimicry ; specialization
Subject RIV	EG - Zoology
CEZ	AV0Z60930519 - UBO-W (2005-2011)
UT WOS	000286208400009
EID SCOPUS	78651455301
DOI	10.1111/j.1420-9101.2010.02168.x
Annotation	We explored the possibility of local adaptation in cuckoo egg mimicry over a geographical mosaic of selection exerted by the reed warbler and investigated whether cuckoos with a broad number of alternative suitable hosts at hand were less locally adapted. Cuckoo eggs showed different degrees of mimicry to different reed warbler populations. However, cuckoo eggs did not match the egg phenotypes of their local host population better than eggs of other host populations, indicating that cuckoos were not locally adapted for mimicry on reed warblers. Interestingly, cuckoos exploiting reed warblers in populations with a relatively larger number of co-occurring gentes showed lower than average levels of local adaptation in egg volume. Our results suggest that cuckoo local adaptation might be prevented when different cuckoo populations exploit more or fewer different host species, with gene flow or frequent host switches breaking down local adaptation where many host races co-occur.
Workplace	Institute of Vertebrate Biology
Contact	Hana Slabáková, slabakova@ivb.cz, Tel.: 543 422 524
Year of Publishing	2012

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