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The screaming cowbird Molothrus rufoaxillaris has been long known as a host specialist brood parasite. However, in the past years, the utilization of two new hosts has been documented. We examined the variation in mitochondrial control region sequences from screaming cowbird chicks found in the nests of two hosts, the bay-winged cowbird (Agelaioides badius), which is its regular host, and the chopi blackbird (Gnorimopsar chopi), which is a new host, in Formosa Province, Argentina. If a group of females switched to this new host, we expected to find an association between host use and haplotype frequency distribution, indicating the presence of host-specific female lineages, whereas we expected no such association if the cowbird population incorporated this new host and females use both hosts simultaneously. Haplotype frequency distributions differed between cowbird chicks from the nests of both hosts. This indicates that nest choice by females of this brood parasite is not random and that they preferentially parasitize the nests of the same host species. © 2009 Springer-Verlag.

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Documento: Artículo
Título:Utilization of a new host in the screaming cowbird Molothrus rufoaxillaris, a host specialist brood parasite: Host switch or host acquisition?
Autor:Mahler, B.; Adamson, Y.S.; Giacomo, A.G.D.; Confalonieri, V.A.; Reboreda, J.C.
Filiación:Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Pabellón II Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EHA Buenos Aires, Argentina
Departamento de Conservación, Aves Argentinas/Asociación Ornitológica del Plata, Matheu 1246, C1249AAB Buenos Aires, Argentina
Palabras clave:Brood parasitism; Host selection; Host specificity; Molothrus rufoaxillaris; mtDNA; Screaming cowbird; brood parasitism; host selection; host specificity; host use; host-parasite interaction; mitochondrial DNA; passerine; Gnorimopsar chopi; Molothrus rufoaxillaris; Turdus merula
Año:2009
Volumen:63
Número:11
Página de inicio:1603
Página de fin:1608
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-009-0755-0
Título revista:Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
Título revista abreviado:Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol.
ISSN:03405443
CODEN:BESOD
Registro:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_03405443_v63_n11_p1603_Mahler

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Mahler, B., Adamson, Y.S., Giacomo, A.G.D., Confalonieri, V.A. & Reboreda, J.C. (2009) . Utilization of a new host in the screaming cowbird Molothrus rufoaxillaris, a host specialist brood parasite: Host switch or host acquisition?. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 63(11), 1603-1608.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-009-0755-0
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Mahler, B., Adamson, Y.S., Giacomo, A.G.D., Confalonieri, V.A., Reboreda, J.C. "Utilization of a new host in the screaming cowbird Molothrus rufoaxillaris, a host specialist brood parasite: Host switch or host acquisition?" . Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 63, no. 11 (2009) : 1603-1608.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-009-0755-0
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Mahler, B., Adamson, Y.S., Giacomo, A.G.D., Confalonieri, V.A., Reboreda, J.C. "Utilization of a new host in the screaming cowbird Molothrus rufoaxillaris, a host specialist brood parasite: Host switch or host acquisition?" . Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 63, no. 11, 2009, pp. 1603-1608.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-009-0755-0
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Mahler, B., Adamson, Y.S., Giacomo, A.G.D., Confalonieri, V.A., Reboreda, J.C. Utilization of a new host in the screaming cowbird Molothrus rufoaxillaris, a host specialist brood parasite: Host switch or host acquisition?. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 2009;63(11):1603-1608.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00265-009-0755-0