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Brood Defense

Brood Defense is a maternal behavior characterized by protective actions enacted by a parent to safeguard offspring from external threats, distinguishing it from other maternal behaviors by its specific focus on aggression, vigilance, or risk avoidance directed toward preserving the immediate survival of the brood.

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6.9K

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334

Authors

180

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2017–2026

12

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Publications

153

Strategic Variation in Mobbing as a Front Line of Defense against Brood Parasitism

Justin A. Welbergen, Nicholas B. Davies · Current Biology · 2009 · 193 citations · Full text

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BEHAVIORAL DEFENSES AGAINST AVIAN BROOD PARASITISM IN SYMPATRIC AND ALLOPATRIC HOST POPULATIONS

James V. Briskie, Spencer G. Sealy, Keith A. Hobson · Evolution · 1992 · 182 citations

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Field Assays for Hygienic Behavior in Honey Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Marla Spivak, Danielle Downey · Journal of Economic Entomology · 1998 · 169 citations

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Social Transmission of a Host Defense Against Cuckoo Parasitism

Nicholas B. Davies, Justin A. Welbergen · Science · 2009 · 163 citations

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How to evade a coevolving brood parasite: egg discrimination versus egg variability as host defences

Claire N. Spottiswoode, Martin Stevens · Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences · 2011 · 138 citations · Full text

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Authors

334

  1. SG
    Spencer G. Sealy

    University of Manitoba, Canada

    8 publications · 607 citations

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  2. EC
    Eberhard Curio

    Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

    7 publications · 421 citations

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  3. MH
    Marcel Honza

    Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czechia

    6 publications · 220 citations

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  4. PP
    Petr Procházka

    Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Czechia

    6 publications · 220 citations

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  5. KR
    Klaus Regelmann

    Ruhr University Bochum, Germany

    5 publications · 340 citations

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Institutions

180

  1. Ruhr University Bochum

    Bochum, Germany

    7 h-index

    16 publications

    964 citations

  2. University of Cambridge

    Cambridge, United Kingdom

    6 h-index

    12 publications

    1.6K citations

  3. Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Vertebrate Biology

    Brno, Czechia

    6 h-index

    25 publications

    834 citations

  4. University of Manitoba

    Winnipeg, Canada

    6 h-index

    11 publications

    792 citations

  5. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    5 h-index

    12 publications

    374 citations

  6. University of Oxford

    Oxford, United Kingdom

    4 h-index

    7 publications

    317 citations

  7. Palacký University Olomouc

    Olomouc, Czechia

    4 h-index

    4 publications

    141 citations

  8. Fundación Ciencias Exactas y Naturales

    Buenos Aires, Argentina

    4 h-index

    8 publications

    334 citations

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Venues

  1. Animal Behaviour

    20 publications · 813 citations

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  2. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

    11 publications · 602 citations

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  3. Ethology

    9 publications · 397 citations

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  4. Behavioral Ecology

    9 publications · 386 citations

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  5. Behaviour

    8 publications · 558 citations

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