I suggest that the cuckoo's parasitic adaptations are of two kinds:'trickery', which is how adult
cuckoos and cuckoo eggs and chicks evade host defences, and involves adaptations that …

This fascinating study describes the natural histories of these brood parasites and examines
many of the exciting questions they raise about the evolution of cheating and the arms race …

In coevolutionary arms races, like between cuckoos and their hosts, it is easy to understand
why the host is under selection favouring anti-parasitism behaviour, such as egg rejection …

Exploitation of hosts by brood parasitic cuckoos is expected to stimulate a coevolutionary
arms race of adaptations and counteradaptations. However, some hosts have not evolved …

Avian parents and social insect colonies are victimized by interspecific brood parasites—
cheats that procure costly care for their dependent offspring by leaving them in another …

To understand the co-existence of rejection and acceptance of cuckoo eggs within a host
population, the mechanism of egg discrimination and the cost-benefit balance of rejection …

Cuckoos (family Cuculidae) show the highest diversity of breeding strategies within one bird
family (parental care, facultative and obligate brood parasites). We used independent …

Coevolutionary arms races, where adaptations in one party select for counter-adaptations in
another and vice versa, are fundamental to interactions between organisms and their …

Raising genetically unrelated young is maladaptive, yet brood parasitism is widespread in
birds. In several systems, hosts can evolve near-perfect defences against the parasite …

How cuckoos find the nests of their hosts and choose nests with respect to egg phenotype
for parasitism is a long-standing puzzle that has so far not been solved. We recently …