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Common cuckoo eggs are more resistant to puncture by the host

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  • 1. Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Ecology of Tropical Islands, Key Laboratory of Tropical Animal and Plant Ecology of Hainan Province, College of Life
  • 2. School of Life Sciences, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, 550001, China

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Yan, Hanlin, Wang, Longwu, Liang, Wei (2024): Common cuckoo eggs are more resistant to puncture by the host. International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife 25: 101003, DOI: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2024.101003, URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2024.101003

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