TY  - GEN 
AU  - Soler Cruz, Juan José
AU  - Martín-Vivaldi Martínez, Manuel Lorenzo
AU  - Møller, Anders Pape
PY  - 2009
SN  - 1471-2148
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/31185
AB  - Background

Several types of selective forces can act to promote parasite specialization. Parasites might specialize on some suitable hosts at the cost of decreasing effectiveness when exploiting other species of hosts, and specialization can be...
LA  - eng
PB  - Biomed Central
KW  - Adaptation
KW  - Animals
KW  - Biological evolution
KW  - Birds
KW  - Eggs
KW  - Europe
KW  - Geography
KW  - Nesting behavior
KW  - Population density
KW  - Reproduction
KW  - Species specificity
TI  - Geographic distribution of suitable hosts explains the evolution of specialized gentes in the European cuckoo Cuculus canorus
ER  -