Microbial infection affects egg viability and incubation behavior in a tropical passerine

By M. Cook, Steven R. Beissinger, G. Toranzos, R. Rodríguez, W. Arendt. 2005

152 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Parasitology

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Citations in the corpus

• Number and colour composition of nest lining feathers predict eggshell bacterial community in barn swallow nests: an experimental study (2010, background): “…commonest bacteria found in unhatched eggs are saprophytic and opportunistic bacteria (Houston, Saunders & Crawford 1997; Singleton &Harper 1998; Cook et al. 2005a) that live in skin, hair and feathers of mammals and birds (Krieg & Holt 1984), and they are known to be pathogenic for avian…”
• Seasonal, sexual and developmental differences in hoopoe Upupa epops preen gland morphology and secretions: evidence for a role of bacteria (2009, background): “Given that bacterial pathogens are a major cause of hatching failure in wild birds ( Cook et al. 2003, 2005a, b), and current evidences suggest antimicrobial properties of uropygial secretions in general and of incubating hoopoes in particular, covering the eggshells with the secretion could reduce ”
• Review: an embryo's eye view of avian eggshell pigmentation (2011, background): “Bacterial infections across the eggshell pose a considerable mortality risk to the developing embryo (Cook et al. 2003, 2005), especially before the onset of incubation (Cook et al. 2005).”
• Unhatched eggs: methods for discriminating between infertility and early embryo mortality (2008, background): “…temperature, humidity and microbial infection prior to the onset of full incubation (Meijerhof 1992, Cook et al. 2003, Beissinger et al. 2005, Cook et al. 2005), poor female condition or genetic incompatibility between the male and female, such as that resulting from inbreeding or…”