Postdoc Mary C. Stoddard Published in Nature Communications

Findings by Postdoctoral Fellow, Mary C. Stoddard (Edwards lab) and colleagues from the University of Cambridge were published in the Journal Nature Communications "The ability of Common Cuckoos to mimic the appearance of many of their hosts' eggs has been known for centuries. The astonishing finding here is that hosts can fight back against cuckoo mimicry by evolving highly recognizable patterns on their own eggs, just like a bank might insert watermarks on its currency to deter counterfeiters," said Dr. Stoddard.