[permalink] [id link]
Most avian brood parasites are specialists which will only parasitize a single host species or a small group of closely related host species, but four out of the five parasitic cowbirds are generalists, which parasitize a wide variety of hosts ; the Brown-headed Cowbird has 221 known hosts.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Most and avian
Most passerines are smaller than typical members of other avian orders.
Most avian prey species are small passerines such as Snow Buntings, Lapland Longspur and American Tree Sparrow.
Most species of bird do not possess a penis ; for those animals, the distinction between penetrative and non-penetrative sex does not exist, though mounting and insemination are common aspects of avian homosexuality even when a phallic organ is not present.
Most avian brood parasites will remove a host egg when they lay one of their own in a nest.
Most avian brood parasites have very short egg incubation periods and rapid nestling growth.
Most and brood
Most decapods carry the eggs attached to the pleopods, while peracarids, notostracans, anostracans, and many isopods form a brood pouch from the carapace and thoracic limbs.
Most females, though, have a brood quantity of about 60 young.
Most and parasites
Most cnidarians prey on organisms ranging in size from plankton to animals several times larger than themselves, but many obtain much of their nutrition from endosymbiotic algae, and a few are parasites.
Most parasitic forms are external parasites, while the free living forms are generally predatory and may even be used to control undesirable arthropods.
Most species are specific to a narrow range of hosts, and all are obligate parasites of flowering plants.
Most of these snails are herbivorous, but a few are parasites or predators.
Most scale insects are parasites of plants, feeding on sap drawn directly from the plant's vascular system.
Most abundant parasites of the Black-Sea round goby are metacercariae of trematodes of Heterophyidae family, such as Cryptocotyle concavum, C. lingua, and Pygidiopsis genata.
Most other parasites and plant pathogens affecting vetches have been recorded on the broad bean, the most widely-cultivated and economically significant species.
Most of these flukes require intermediate hosts, so that leaving the snails in a fish-free aquarium for a month or so will eliminate any parasites.
Most and are
Most of them are Democrats and nearly all consider themselves, and are viewed as, liberals.
Most assuredly ideas are invaluable.
Most students of literature, whether they call themselves scholars or critics, are ready to argue that it is possible to understand literary works as well as to enjoy them.
Most women, in this age of freezers, shop for the entire week on week-ends, when prices are lower.
Most Juniors who were entered in the Finals are seasoned campaigners and not only show and win in Junior Classes but score in the Breed Classes as well.
Most beakers are graduated in cubic centimeters ( cc. ), making it necessary to convert the result to cubic inches.
Most seams are sewn with backstitch, especially on curved, slanted or loose edges.
Most floor battens are glued and screwed to the flooring.
Most of the data used are from Groth's Chemische Krystallographie.
Most manufacturers also seem to be concentrating on formulating fire-resistant or self-extinguishing grades of urethane foam that are aimed specifically at the burgeoning building markets.
Most other desserts are fruit in some form, fresh fruits once daily at least, sometimes at snack time.
The general board declared: `` Most of the Protestant churches hold contraception and periodic continence to be morally right when the motives are right.
1 ) Most of the legends that are created to fan the fires of patriotism are essentially propagandistic and are not folk legends at all.
Most Jewish mothers are determined to exercise vigilance over the social and sexual lives of their daughters by keeping them home.
Most members of the U.S. Senate, because they are human, like to eat as high on the hog as they can.
Most library budgets are hopelessly inadequate.
Most of these former churches are now used as warehouses, but `` neither Anglicans nor Nonconformists object to selling churches to Roman Catholics '', and have done so.
Most of the female faces are new, or at least not too familiar.
Most references to " amoebas " or " amoebae " are to amoeboids in general rather than to the specific genus Amoeba.
Most modern character-encoding schemes are based on ASCII, though they support many additional characters.
Most have four limbs and live in fresh water or on land but the caecilians, though included in the group, live in burrows in damp soil and are limbless.
Most salamanders are under long.
Most and specialists
Most sexual orientation specialists follow the general conclusion of Alfred Kinsey regarding the sexual continuum, according to which a minority of humans are exclusively heterosexual or homosexual, and that the majority are bisexual.
Most other specialists in the field reject this view.
Most are bought from Telstra, however some can be bought through other special payphone specialists.
Most species are specialists, living in specific parts of the reef, such as sandy lagoons, steep reef slopes, or areas exposed to strong wave action.
Most individuals with myelomeningocele will need periodic evaluations by a variety of specialists:
Most people were farmers ; other were fishers, weavers, potters, artisans, armorers and ritual specialists.
Most are the technical specialists required to keep the station and the scientific experiments running.
Most bryozoan specialists tend to consider themselves paleontologists, rather than micropaleontologists, but many micropaleontologists also study bryozoa.
Most researchers in this field, known as micropaleontologists, are typically specialists in one or more taxonomic groups.
Most eat a wide variety of fruits and leaves, while some are specialists.
Most specialists think it is a diminutive form biretum of the Low Latin birrum, which means " sort of short cloak with a hood " brevis ", that is from Gaulish birros " short ".
Most theories assume widespread democracy, and some assume workers ' democratic participation at every level of economic and state administration, while varying in the degree to which economic planning decisions are delegated to public officials and administrative specialists.
Most specialists now reject the validity of the Ritwan genetic node.
Most commonly, treatment involves surgery, and, as of 2011, specifically CRS, or cytoreductive surgery, with IPHC, performed by specific specialists trained in treating this disease.
Most specialists in Pipil ( El Salvador ) consider it to have diverged from Nahuatl to the point it should no longer be considered a variety of Nahuatl.
Most specialists in Nahuan do not consider Pochutec to have ever been a variety of Nahuatl.
Most numismatic specialists favor this idea.
0.841 seconds.