In her new book about cuckoos, Cynthia Chris details the extensive history of everyone's favorite feathery brood parasite.

Caption Cuckoo finch and host chicks. Brood parasitism is costly for hosts because a cuckoo finch chick begs for food very vigorously as soon as it hatches, outcompeting the host parents’ own ...

A lot of us will change our wardrobe to fit into a crowd, and the brood parasite known as the cuckoo has used evolution to do ...

These costs exert reciprocal natural selection on parasites and hosts, such that in many cases host-parasite interactions result in escalating coevolution between intimately tied and ...

C. canorus is known to have passed its eggs on to more than 100 host species, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. When the cuckoo chick hatches, it ejects other eggs ...

The female cuckoo-finch (Anomalospiza imberbis), for example, has evolved to look like a harmless, non-parasitic bird that lives in the same area, allowing it to sneak into host nests unchallenged.

Quarter of a million host-parasite records, detailing helminth parasites their associated host species and locality, extracted from 28,000 references. In 1922 Dr H.A. Baylis, then head of what today ...

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In parasitism, an individual organism, the parasite, consumes nutrients from another organism, its host, resulting in a decrease in fitness to the host. In extreme cases, parasites can cause ...

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Oct. 8, 2024 — Rates of babesiosis, a tick-borne parasitic disease, increased an average of 9% per year in the United States between 2015 and 2022 and four in 10 patients were found to be co ...