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Overview

Csaba Moskát is affiliated with the Hungarian Natural History Museum in Hungary. Their research focuses predominantly on agricultural and biological sciences, environmental science, and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology. Subfields of interest include ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, ecology, developmental biology, genetics, and social psychology.

Their work covers a number of main topics, notably:

  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Plant and animal studies
  • Genetic diversity and population structure
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Marine animal studies overview

Csaba Moskát has contributed to several peer-reviewed journals, with frequent publications in:

  • Behavioural Processes
  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • Science Advances
  • Ethology
  • Die Naturwissenschaften

Coauthors who frequently collaborate with Moskát include Márk E. Hauber, Miklós Bán, Attila Marton, Zoltán Elek, and Attila Fülöp.

Selected recent publications by Csaba Moskát include:

  • Female-female aggression and male responses to the two colour morphs of female common cuckoos, 2020, Die Naturwissenschaften
  • Male common cuckoos use a three-note variant of their "cu-coo" call for duetting with conspecific females, 2021, Behavioural Processes

Other notable papers where Moskát has contributed either as a lead or coauthor include:

  • Female common cuckoo calls dampen the mobbing intensity of great reed warbler hosts, 2021, Ethology
  • Evolution and genetic architecture of sex-limited polymorphism in cuckoos, 2024, Science Advances
  • Call rate in Common Cuckoos does not predict body size and responses to conspecific playbacks, 2021, Journal für Ornithologie

Best Publications

  • European Cuckoo Cuculus canorus parasitism and host's rejection behaviour in a heavily parasitized Great Reed Warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus population

    Csaba Moskát;Marcel Honza

  • Effect of nest and nest site characteristics on the risk of cuckoo Cuculus canorus parasitism in the great reed warbler Acrocephalus arundinaceus

    Csaba Moskát;Marcel Honza

  • Constraints on host choice: Why do parasitic birds rarely exploit some common potential hosts?

    Tomáš Grim;Peter Samaš;Csaba Moskát;Oddmund Kleven

  • Conflict between egg recognition and egg rejection decisions in common cuckoo (Cuculus canorus) hosts

    Csaba Moskát;Mark Erno Hauber

  • Experimental shift in hosts' acceptance threshold of inaccurate-mimic brood parasite eggs

    Márk E Hauber;Csaba Moskát;Miklós Bán

  • Aggression to dummy cuckoos by potential European cuckoo hosts

    Eivin Røskaft;Arne Moksnes;Bard G. Stokke;Vitezslav Bicik

  • Responses of great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus to experimental brood parasitism: the effects of a cuckoo Cuculus canorus dummy and egg mimicry

    István Bártol;Zsolt Karcza;Csaba Moskát;Eivin Røskaft

  • The spatial habitat structure of host populations explains the pattern of rejection behavior in hosts and parasitic adaptations in cuckoos

    Eivin Røskaft;Arne Moksnes;Bård G. Stokke;Csaba Moskát

  • Discordancy or template-based recognition? Dissecting the cognitive basis of the rejection of foreign eggs in hosts of avian brood parasites

    Csaba Moskat;Miklos Ban;Tamas Szekely;Jan Komdeur

  • Do cuckoos choose nests of great reed warblers on the basis of host egg appearance

    Michael I. Cherry;A. T.D. Bennett;C. Moskát

  • Host intra-clutch variation, cuckoo egg matching and egg rejection by great reed warblers

    Michael I. Cherry;Andrew T. D. Bennett;Csaba Moskát

  • Rapid change in host use of the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus linked to climate change.

    A. P. Møller;N. Saino;P. Adamík;R. Ambrosini

  • ADAPTATIONS BY GREAT REED WARBLERS TO BROOD PARASITISM: A COMPARISON OF POPULATIONS IN SYMPATRY AND ALLOPATRY WITH THE COMMON CUCKOO

    C. Moskat;J. Szentpeteri;Z. Barta

  • A shared chemical basis of avian host-parasite egg colour mimicry.

    Branislav Igic;Phillip Cassey;Phillip Cassey;Tomáš Grim;David R. Greenwood;David R. Greenwood

  • BREAK-DOWN OF ARMS RACE BETWEEN THE RED-BACKED SHRIKE (LANIUS COLLURIO) AND COMMON CUCKOO (CUCULUS CANORUS)

    Péter Lovászi;Csaba Moskát

  • Experimental support for the use of egg uniformity in parasite egg discrimination by cuckoo hosts

    Csaba Moskát;Jesús M. Avilés;Miklós Bán;Rita Hargitai

  • Eviction behaviour of the common cuckoo Cuculus canorus chicks

    Marcel Honza;Katerina Vošlajerová;Csaba Moskát

  • Simultaneous viewing of own and parasitic eggs is not required for egg rejection by a cuckoo host

    Miklós Bán;Csaba Moskát;Zoltán Barta;Mark Erno Hauber;Mark Erno Hauber

  • The importance of nest cleaning in egg rejection behaviour of great reed warblers Acrocephalus arundinaceus

    Csaba Moskát;Tamás Székely;Tibor Kisbenedek;Zsolt Karcza

  • Hosts’ Responses to Parasitic Eggs: Which Cues Elicit Hosts’ Egg Discrimination?

    Csaba Moskát;Tamás Székely;Innes C. Cuthill;Tibor Kisbenedek

  • Shared parental care is costly for nestlings of common cuckoos and their great reed warbler hosts

    Mark Erno Hauber;Csaba Moskát

  • Egg eviction imposes a recoverable cost of virulence in chicks of a brood parasite.

    Michael G. Anderson;Csaba Moskát;Miklós Bán;Tomáš Grim

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark E. Hauber
Mark E. Hauber Queens College, CUNY
Marcel Honza
Marcel Honza Czech Academy of Sciences
Tomáš Grim
Tomáš Grim Palacký University, Olomouc
Eivin Røskaft
Eivin Røskaft Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Phillip Cassey
Phillip Cassey University of Adelaide
Bård G. Stokke
Bård G. Stokke Norwegian Institute for Nature Research
Arne Moksnes
Arne Moksnes Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Zoltán Barta
Zoltán Barta University of Debrecen
Tamás Székely
Tamás Székely University of Bath
Jesús M. Avilés
Jesús M. Avilés Spanish National Research Council

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