Internal incubation and early hatching in brood parasitic birds
Internal incubation and early hatching in brood parasitic birds
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England: The Royal Society
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English
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The offspring of brood parasitic birds benefit from hatching earlier than host young. A proposed but little-known strategy to achieve this is ‘internal incubation’, by retaining the egg in the oviduct for an additional 24 h. To test this, we quantified the stage of embryo development at laying in four brood parasitic birds (European cuckoo, Cuculus...
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Internal incubation and early hatching in brood parasitic birds
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_904468869
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_904468869
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0962-8452
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10.1098/rspb.2010.1504
