caa a22 4500 605541647 CHVBK 20210128100917.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10071-014-0806-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10071-014-0806-4 Nest sanitation behavior in hirundines as a pre-adaptation to egg rejection to counter brood parasitism [Elektronische Daten] [Canchao Yang, Longwu Wang, Wei Liang, Anders Møller] Previous studies suggested that nest sanitation behavior may have been a pre-adaptation from which egg rejection of brood parasite eggs evolved. We tested this hypothesis in two swallow species, the red-rumped swallow (Cecropis daurica) and the barn swallow (Hirundo rustica). Our results indicated that the red-rumped swallow, which is an accepter of foreign eggs, rejected a low percentage of non-egg-shaped objects and did so less often than the barn swallow, which is an intermediate rejecter of foreign eggs. Furthermore, the egg rejection rates of the barn swallow increased with the increase in rejection rates of non-egg-shaped objects among different populations. These results showed that nest cleaning behavior could have evolved into a means of reducing the costs of brood parasitism, suggesting that egg recognition ability has evolved from recognition of non-egg-shaped objects. This finding advances our understanding of the evolution of egg recognition behavior in birds. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 Cecropis daurica nationallicence Egg recognition nationallicence Egg rejection nationallicence Hirundo rustica nationallicence Nest cleaning nationallicence Yang Canchao Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Tropical Plant and Animal Ecology, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, 571158, Haikou, China aut Wang Longwu Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Tropical Plant and Animal Ecology, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, 571158, Haikou, China aut Liang Wei Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Tropical Plant and Animal Ecology, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, 571158, Haikou, China aut Møller Anders Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, CNRS UMR 8079, Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 362, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France aut Animal Cognition Springer Berlin Heidelberg 18/1(2015-01-01), 355-360 1435-9448 18:1<355 2015 18 10071 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-014-0806-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10071-014-0806-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Yang Canchao Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Tropical Plant and Animal Ecology, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, 571158, Haikou, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wang Longwu Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Tropical Plant and Animal Ecology, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, 571158, Haikou, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Liang Wei Ministry of Education Key Laboratory for Tropical Plant and Animal Ecology, College of Life Sciences, Hainan Normal University, 571158, Haikou, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Møller Anders Laboratoire d'Ecologie, Systématique et Evolution, CNRS UMR 8079, Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiment 362, 91405, Orsay Cedex, France aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Animal Cognition Springer Berlin Heidelberg 18/1(2015-01-01), 355-360 1435-9448 18:1<355 2015 18 10071