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Brood parasitism in birds: a coevolutionary point of view.- Factors affecting the rates of coevolution between obligate avian brood parasites and their hosts.- Evolution of avian brood parasitism and phylogenetic history of brood parasites.- A taxonomic review of obligate and facultative interspecific avian brood parasitism.- Conspecific brood parasitism among birds: The effects of phylogeny, mode of reproduction and geographic distribution .- Why do birds lay eggs in conspecifics’ nests?- Evolution and maintenance of egg rejection by hosts as adaptation against conspecific brood parasites - an individual-based model.- Interspecific avian brood parasitism as a model system for exploring ecological and evolutionary questions related to habitat selection .- The Brown-headed Cowbird: a model species for testing novel research questions in animal ecology, evolution and behavior.- Cuckoos as indicators of biodiversity.- Hippocampus and Spatial Memory in Brood Parasitic Cowbirds.- Brood parasitism and cooperative breeding: seeking an evolutionary link.- Host Resource Partitioning Among Sympatric Molothrine Generalist Brood Parasites.- High diversity of brood parasites in China and coevolution between cuckoos and their hosts.- Brood parasites as predators: farming and mafia strategies.- Cuckoo-host coevolutionary interactions across all breeding stages: unusual ecological setting of a cavity-nesting host.- Evidence of adaptations and counter-adaptations before the parasite lays its egg: the frontline of the arms race.- Parasitic behaviour of interspecific brood parasitic females.- Egg color polymorphism in brood parasites and their hosts: Adaptation and evolution.- Adaptations of brood parasitic eggs.- Implications of Nest Sanitation in the Evolution of Egg Rejection.- Egg characteristics affecting egg rejection .- Anti-brood parasite defences: the role of individual and social learning.- Cognitive Decision Rules for Egg Rejection.- Phenotypic plasticity in egg rejection: evidence and evolutionary consequences.- The evolution of nest sharing and nest mate killing strategies in brood parasites.- Begging behaviour, food delivery and food acquisition in nests with brood parasitic nestlings.- Begging call mimicry by brood parasite nestlings: Adaptation, manipulation and development.- Host defences against brood parasite nestlings: theoretical expectations and empirical evidence.- Parasite adaptations during the nestling and fledgling stages.