| egg trait variation in a large hawk-cuckoo (hierococcyx sparverioides) host population of chinese babax (babax lanceolatus). | mutual interaction between brood parasites and their hosts is a well-known model system for studying host-parasite coevolution. both parties have acted reciprocally, resembling an evolutionary arms race, in which adaptations and counter-adaptations have evolved as a result of host-parasite dynamics, such as the classical cuckoo-host system. discrimination among parasite and cuckoo eggs and rejection of foreign eggs is regarded as an important anti-parasitism strategy. the chinese babax (babax la ... | 2015 | 25664780 |
| the complete mitochondrial genome of babax lanceolatus (passeriformes: timaliidae). | the complete mitochondrial of babax lanceolatus is 17 849 bp in length. the contents of a, c, t, and g in the mitochondrial genome were 29.53%, 32.62%, 23.72%, and 14.13%, respectively. the mitogenome of b. lanceolatus were composed of 13 typical protein-coding genes, 22 transfer rna (trna) genes, two ribosomal rna (rrna) genes, and two putative control regions. all protein-coding, rrna, and trna genes were similar to those of other passeriformes in gene arrangement and composition. garrulax per ... | 2016 | 26195215 |