Categorical identity signatures can reduce host error rates during brood parasitism

• Tanmay Dixit ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: td349@cam.ac.uk

  Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Biological Sciences, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5604-7965

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• Ming Liu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

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• Jana M. Riederer,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Groningen Institute for Evolutionary Life Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands

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• Jonah M. Walker,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Tree of Life Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, United Kingdom

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• Cameron J. Blair,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Jess Lund,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Biological Sciences, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Collins Moya,

  Roles Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Musumanene Farm, Choma, Zambia

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• Claire N. Spottiswoode

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Department of Biological Sciences, FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, Cape Town, South Africa

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