10.5061/DRYAD.16R35
Manna, Thomas
City University of New York
Queens College, CUNY
Cooper, Caren
North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Baylis, Shane
Monash University
Shawkey, Matthew D.
University of Akron
Waterhouse, Geoffrey I. N.
University of Auckland
Grim, Tomas
PalackĂ˝ University, Olomouc
Hauber, Mark E.
City University of New York
Queens College, CUNY
Data from: Does the house sparrow Passer domesticus represent a global
model species for egg rejection behavior?
Dryad
dataset
2016
house sparrow
brood parasitism
Egg Rejection
Passer domesticus
2016-12-08T15:26:35Z
2016-12-08T15:26:35Z
en
https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.01193
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Conspecific brood parasitism (CP) is a facultative breeding tactic whereby
females lay their eggs in the nests of conspecifics. In some species,
potential host individuals have evolved the ability to identify and reject
foreign eggs from their nest. Previous studies suggest that the ubiquitous
House Sparrow Passer domesticus in Spain and South Africa employs both CP
and parasitic egg rejection, while a population in China does not. Given
the species’ invasive range expansions, the House Sparrow represents a
potentially excellent global model system for egg rejection across
variable ecological conditions. The present study examines House Sparrow
responses to experimental parasitism at three geographically distinct
locations (in Israel, North America, and New Zealand) to provide a robust
test of how general the findings of the previous studies are. In all three
geographic regions egg rejection rates were negligible and not
statistically different from background rates of disappearance of control
eggs, suggesting that the House Sparrow is not a suitable model species
for egg rejection experiments on a global scale.
New Zealand Rejection DataRaw data for New Zealand experiments, status of
eggs in clutches.HOSP NZ.xlsUS Egg DataRaw data from citizen science egg
rejection project. Identifying info for individual participants omitted.
New Zealand
Continental USA
Israel