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Parasitism
Jumat, 2026-06-05 01:36:20species, where one organism, the parasite, lives (at least some of the time) on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted...
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Senin, 2025-09-29 22:48:01Host–parasite coevolution is a special case of coevolution, where a host and a parasite continually adapt to each other. This can create an evolutionary...
Click to read more »Brood parasitism
Rabu, 2025-12-17 18:56:05The strategy appears among birds, insects and fish. The brood parasite manipulates a host, either of the same or of another species, to raise its young...
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Selasa, 2026-05-05 19:09:04Behavior-altering parasites are parasites capable of causing changes in the behavior of their hosts species to enhance their transmission, sometimes directly...
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Minggu, 2026-05-03 01:54:54obligate parasite or holoparasite is a parasitic organism that cannot complete its life-cycle without exploiting a suitable host. If an obligate parasite cannot...
Click to read more »Aggressive mimicry
Rabu, 2026-05-06 15:41:30predators, parasites, or parasitoids share similar signals, using a harmless model, allowing them to avoid being correctly identified by their prey or host. Zoologists...
Click to read more »Plasmodium
Minggu, 2026-05-17 21:46:35are obligate parasites of vertebrates and insects. The life cycles of Plasmodium species involve development in a blood-feeding insect host which then injects...
Click to read more »Vulcanoctopus
Rabu, 2026-02-18 17:05:19to be more prone to infections by the parasite Genesis vulcanoctopusi, which is described further in Host-Parasite Relationships. The morphology of Vulcanoctopus...
Click to read more »Host (biology)
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 07:06:12larger than the other, it is generally known as the host. In parasitism, the parasite benefits at the host's expense. In commensalism, the two live together...
Click to read more »Cospeciation
Kamis, 2026-04-09 09:40:59and is most commonly studied in host-parasite relationships. In the case of a host-parasite relationship, if two hosts of the same species get within close...
Click to read more »Three-spined stickleback
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 01:15:00fish ethology and behavioral ecology. Its antipredator adaptations, host-parasite interactions, sensory physiology, reproductive physiology, and endocrinology...
Click to read more »Dendrophthoe falcata
Minggu, 2023-12-03 22:10:42are usually mediated by the birds that thrive on fruits from the parasite and/or host. Particularly in southern India, Tickel’s flowerpecker (also called...
Click to read more »Massospora cicadina
Selasa, 2025-08-19 22:13:15their long, synchronous life cycles.[citation needed] Another parasite that hijacks host sexual behavior is Massospora levispora, a pathogen of the annual...
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Sabtu, 2026-02-07 04:41:51on whether or not the parasites are root parasites or stem parasites. Most parasitic plants need to germinate near their host plants because their seeds...
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Kamis, 2025-05-29 14:01:04biological species interactions including prey-predator (see predation), host-parasite (see parasitism), plant-herbivore and victim-exploiter systems. These...
Click to read more »Mimicry in vertebrates
Senin, 2025-09-29 04:03:40parasites or parasitoids. These organisms benefit by sharing some of the characteristics of a harmless species in order to deceive their prey or host...
Click to read more »Avian malaria
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 18:31:48case of Plasmodium parasites and biting midges for Hemoproteus. The range of symptoms and effects of the parasite on its bird hosts is very wide, from...
Click to read more »Blastocystis hominis
Minggu, 2026-05-24 23:00:16identified numerous subtypes, suggesting a complex evolutionary history and host-parasite relationship. The organism is one of the most common intestinal protists...
Click to read more »Red Queen hypothesis
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 13:12:24between parasites and hosts in an antagonistic coevolutionary way without necessitating changes to the phenotype. In multi-host and multi-parasite coevolution...
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Rabu, 2026-05-20 02:59:51superficially within the skin. Parasites in general are hosts-dependent organisms that obtain nutrients while potentially harming their host in the process. Parasitic...
Click to read more »Evolutionary arms race
Sabtu, 2025-12-27 02:24:31evolutionary arms race between a predator species and its prey, or a parasite and its host. Alternatively, the arms race may be between members of the same...
Click to read more »Rotylenchulus reniformis
Rabu, 2025-12-17 14:00:20soil; males are not parasites and do not feed. Under drought conditions the nematode can persist up to two years outside a host by entering an anhydrobiotic...
Click to read more »Parasitic ant
Kamis, 2026-05-21 23:01:30million years ago as temporary social parasites (ants that infiltrate a colony and kill the host queen). Parasites usually cause harmful effects to the...
Click to read more »Hirschmanniella oryzae
Jumat, 2026-04-10 22:21:55multiplication. Although rice is the principal host, around 30 other plants have been reported to be parasitized by RRN including cotton, maize, sugarcane...
Click to read more »Parasite load
Rabu, 2026-05-13 21:19:02Parasite load is a measure of the number and virulence of the parasites that a host organism harbours. Quantitative parasitology deals with measures to...
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Senin, 2026-03-16 01:39:30relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or in another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally...
Click to read more »Intracellular parasite
Sabtu, 2026-01-17 15:29:23Intracellular parasites are microparasites that are capable of growing and reproducing inside the cells of a host. They are also called intracellular...
Click to read more »Optimal virulence
Senin, 2023-12-04 07:30:44to the ecology of hosts and parasites. One definition of virulence is the host's parasite-induced loss of fitness. The parasite's fitness is determined...
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Sabtu, 2026-04-25 18:16:42species or much smaller number of species that can infect multiple hosts. The parasite's life cycle typically involves a predator and a prey animal. A single...
Click to read more »Acroeimeria
Selasa, 2025-12-09 00:44:52development of the parasite is intra-cytoplasmic, within the epithelial cells of the ileum. The parasites lie above (closer to the lumen) the host cell nucleus...
Click to read more »Coevolution
Selasa, 2026-05-12 22:02:01each other's evolution. Coevolution includes many forms of mutualism, host-parasite, and predator-prey relationships between species, as well as competition...
Click to read more »Daphnia magna
Rabu, 2025-10-01 06:33:29evolution and ecology of host-parasite interaction. Animals collected from natural habitats are frequently infected. Many parasites that infect D. magna have...
Click to read more »Choleoeimeria
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 10:44:22Landsberg. The endogenous development of the parasite occurs in the cells of the bile epithelium. The infected host cell becomes hypertrophic and emerges above...
Click to read more »Anguina tritici
Jumat, 2025-06-06 19:56:42Males possess small spicules and small bursae or alae. Juveniles find a host and move up the plant in a film of water. They invade meristems and penetrate...
Click to read more »Parasitology
Kamis, 2026-01-01 20:31:15Parasitology is the study of parasites, their hosts, and the relationship between them. As a biological discipline, the scope of parasitology is not determined...
Click to read more »Diphyllobothriasis
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 00:57:36hosts in which adult tapeworms will then finally develop in the small intestine to release up to a million immature eggs per day per parasite. Hosts begin...
Click to read more »Pinworm (parasite)
Selasa, 2026-06-02 00:21:12a parasitic worm. It is a nematode (roundworm) and a common intestinal parasite or helminth, especially in humans. The medical condition associated with...
Click to read more »Hyperparasite
Selasa, 2026-05-19 00:19:11A hyperparasite, also known as a metaparasite, is a parasite whose host is itself a parasite, often specifically a parasitoid. Hyperparasites are found...
Click to read more »Slave-making ant
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 15:44:23were in their own colony, while parasite workers only concentrate on replenishing the labor force from neighboring host nests, a process called slave raiding...
Click to read more »Schistocephalus solidus
Jumat, 2026-05-15 07:50:43than self-fertilization. It parasitizes fish and fish-eating water birds. The fish-eating water bird is the definitive host, and reproduction occurs in...
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Senin, 2026-01-26 08:44:29comments on their phylogeny and host-parasite associations in a biogeographic context". Parasite. 27: 66. doi:10.1051/parasite/2020059. ISSN 1776-1042. PMC 7685236...
Click to read more »Facultative parasite
Jumat, 2026-01-09 04:17:26A facultative parasite is an organism that may resort to parasitic activity, but does not absolutely rely on any host for completion of its life cycle...
Click to read more »Sea louse
Kamis, 2026-03-26 13:51:26They are marine ectoparasites (external parasites) that feed on the mucus, epidermal tissue, and blood of host fish. The roughly 559 species in 37 genera...
Click to read more »Tylenchulus semipenetrans
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 01:38:40they can cause 10-30% losses reported on citrus trees. They also parasitize other hosts such as olive, grape, persimmon and lilac. The citrus nematode was...
Click to read more »Euhaplorchis
Rabu, 2026-03-25 09:56:43is a parasite that lives in the salt-water marshes of Southern California, United States, transmitted trophically (as a TTP by being eaten by hosts). It...
Click to read more »Parasite (disambiguation)
Kamis, 2026-05-14 14:38:31parasite in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A parasite is an organism that has sustained contact with another organism to the detriment of the host organism...
Click to read more »Zatypota percontatoria
Senin, 2026-05-18 09:04:08of the order Hymenoptera and the family Ichneumonidae responsible for parasitizing arachnids, specifically those of the family Theridiidae. The parasitoid...
Click to read more »Harrison's rule
Senin, 2025-08-04 19:06:34which states that in comparisons across closely related species, host and parasite body sizes tend to covary positively. Launcelot Harrison, an Australian...
Click to read more »Mimicry
Senin, 2026-04-13 15:52:20two species. The potential host (or prey) drives away its parasite (or predator) by mimicking it, the reverse of host-parasite aggressive mimicry. It was...
Click to read more »Giardiasis
Jumat, 2026-05-01 23:40:45and host immunity, internal flora, and other pathogens is not well understood.In vitro cell cultures have been widely used to study host-parasite interactions...
Click to read more »Parasite Eve (novel)
Rabu, 2026-02-04 23:48:30Parasite Eve (パラサイト・イヴ, Parasaito Ivu) is a Japanese science fiction horror novel by Hideaki Sena, first published by Kadokawa in 1995. The book was published...
Click to read more »Gasterophilus intestinalis
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 16:16:21Gasterophilinae host-parasite interactions". In Colwell, Douglas D.; Hall, Martin J. R.; Scholl, Philip J. (eds.). The Oestrid Flies: Biology, Host-parasite Relationships...
Click to read more »PHI-base
Kamis, 2026-04-09 15:35:31The Pathogen-Host Interactions database (PHI-base) is a biological database that contains manually curated information on genes experimentally proven to...
Click to read more »Eimeria
Jumat, 2025-09-26 23:28:35formation of a moving junction between parasite and host cell membranes. In E. tenella, this involves parasite micronemes and rhoptry proteins including...
Click to read more »Ophiocordyceps unilateralis
Selasa, 2026-05-19 02:33:14assistance to the colony. In host–parasite dynamics, both the host and the parasite are under selective pressure: the parasite evolves to increase its transmission...
Click to read more »Plant parasite
Kamis, 2023-11-30 23:01:20A plant parasite can be: a parasitic plant, a plant whose host is another plant a micropredator, a small external parasite of a plant This disambiguation...
Click to read more »Bursaphelenchus cocophilus
Minggu, 2024-03-03 08:48:36insect vector for [its] dissemination, the vector itself being a parasite of the common host." Blair, G. and Darling, D. (1968). Red ring disease on the coconut...
Click to read more »Cymothoa exigua
Senin, 2026-06-01 08:20:34isopods are known to consume and replace the host's organs. Other species of isopods known to parasitize fish in this way include Cymothoa borbonica and...
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Senin, 2026-05-18 04:35:45and agent-based computing. Fields such as population dynamics and host-parasite coevolution are also at the heart of the novel. Film rights to the book...
Click to read more »Major histocompatibility complex and sexual selection
Kamis, 2025-11-20 09:39:32organism's fitness stems from the co-evolutionary arms race between hosts and parasites. There are two hypotheses for explaining the MHC's high diversity...
Click to read more »Diplostomum pseudospathaceum
Rabu, 2026-05-13 06:52:37The parasite infects snails and birds, sexually reproducing in the latter (its primary host) and asexually in the former (its first intermediate host),...
Click to read more »Pratylenchus alleni
Kamis, 2025-06-26 22:30:49obligate biotroph, meaning it must have a living host in order to survive. Due to their incredibly broad host range, Pratylenchus species fall third in total...
Click to read more »Kleptoparasitism
Selasa, 2026-05-19 08:45:03hosts of parasitoid wasps. They are an instance of Emery's rule, which states that insect social parasites tend to be closely related to their hosts....
Click to read more »Screaming cowbird
Minggu, 2025-10-05 02:14:57The screaming cowbird (Molothrus rufoaxillaris) is an obligate brood parasite belonging to the family Icteridae and is found in South America. It is also...
Click to read more »Parasite (2019 film)
Jumat, 2026-06-05 12:06:36Parasite (Korean: 기생충) is a 2019 South Korean black comedy thriller film directed by Bong Joon Ho, who co-wrote the screenplay with Han Jin-won. It stars...
Click to read more »Sarcocystis
Rabu, 2025-12-10 04:39:46prey. The parasite reproduces sexually in the gut of the definitive host, is passed with the feces, and ingested by the intermediate host. There, it...
Click to read more »Bong Joon Ho
Jumat, 2026-06-05 17:31:06Host (2006), the science fiction action film Snowpiercer (2013), which served as Bong's English-language debut, and the dark comedy thriller Parasite...
Click to read more »Spinochordodes tellinii
Selasa, 2024-11-26 07:56:40and crickets. This parasite is able to influence its host's behavior: once the parasite is grown, it causes its grasshopper host to jump into water,...
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Selasa, 2026-04-14 17:59:21describe the strategy where the parasite develops in or on the body of a single host individual, eventually killing that host, while the adult is free-living...
Click to read more »Nicholson–Bailey model
Jumat, 2024-10-18 18:39:55dynamics of a coupled host-parasitoid system.a It is named after Alexander John Nicholson and Victor Albert Bailey. Host-parasite and prey-predator systems...
Click to read more »Trichomonas vaginalis
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 16:13:03illustrate the genetic variability of the parasite and the parasite's possible resistance to treatment. Understanding of host-pathogen interaction and prevention...
Click to read more »Parasite Eve (video game)
Kamis, 2026-05-07 22:15:12Parasite Eve is a 1998 role-playing video game developed and published by Square. The game is a sequel to the novel Parasite Eve, written by Hideaki Sena;...
Click to read more »Helicotylenchus multicinctus
Minggu, 2025-03-02 15:57:53(Rotylenchus and Helicotylenchus), and the developmental stages and host-parasite relationships of R. buxophilus, n.sp., attacking boxwood". Bulletin...
Click to read more »Evolving digital ecological network
Jumat, 2025-01-24 07:40:33the architecture of food webs, plant-animal mutualistic networks, and host-parasite communities. The concept of diffuse coevolution, where adaptation is...
Click to read more »Evolution of sexual reproduction
Jumat, 2026-05-22 11:31:22roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans as a host and the pathogenic bacteria Serratia marcescens to generate a host-parasite coevolutionary system in a controlled...
Click to read more »Giardia duodenalis
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 05:07:49environmentally stable stage of the parasite, that facilitates transmission between hosts. The infection process in the host begins with the ingestion of cysts...
Click to read more »Parasitic castration
Senin, 2026-05-18 13:15:02Parasitic castration is the strategy, by a parasite, of blocking reproduction by its host, completely or in part, to its own benefit. This is one of six...
Click to read more »Anguina agrostis
Kamis, 2025-07-24 21:37:58One testis is present. Infective second stage juveniles (J2) find a young host, migrate to areas of new growth and are carried up with the growing point...
Click to read more »Mafia hypothesis
Senin, 2026-01-12 22:20:08explanation of why nesting host species do not reject the eggs of brood parasites. The parasite eggs are accepted by the host to avoid retaliation (egg...
Click to read more »Belonolaimus longicaudatus
Minggu, 2024-02-18 11:40:35Belonolaimus longicaudatus (Sting nematode) is a common parasite of grasses and other plant crops and products. It is the most destructive nematode pest...
Click to read more »List of Parasyte characters
Selasa, 2026-05-12 13:40:51infected with a Parasite and is repeatedly put into difficult positions. Shinichi must find a way to peacefully coexist with Migi, the Parasite which has taken...
Click to read more »Gene-for-gene relationship
Senin, 2026-03-09 11:52:21usitatissimum). Flor showed that the inheritance of both resistance in the host and parasite ability to cause disease is controlled by pairs of matching genes...
Click to read more »Taenia (flatworm)
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 03:24:07intermediate hosts and then inhabits cats as the definitive hosts. Taenia serialis is a parasite of dogs and foxes which has rabbits as the intermediate host. The...
Click to read more »Paleoparasitology
Senin, 2026-01-12 02:39:03Paleoparasitology (or "palaeoparasitology") is the study of parasites from the past, and their interactions with hosts and vectors; it is a subfield of paleontology...
Click to read more »Local adaptation
Kamis, 2026-04-30 07:23:07exist in host-parasite systems as well. For instance, a host may be resistant to a locally-abundant pathogen or parasite, but conspecific hosts from elsewhere...
Click to read more »Ploidy
Jumat, 2026-06-05 05:07:18suggest that selection is more likely to favor diploidy in host species and haploidy in parasite species. However, polyploidization is associated with an...
Click to read more »Gens (behaviour)
Jumat, 2025-10-17 20:23:00(pl. gentes) or host race is a lineage of a brood parasite species that inherits phenotypic traits adapted for a specific type of host, even though the...
Click to read more »Tierra (computer simulation)
Jumat, 2024-03-22 02:30:13dynamics. Processes such as the dynamics of punctuated equilibrium, host-parasite co-evolution and density-dependent natural selection are amenable to...
Click to read more »Hemicriconemoides mangiferae
Jumat, 2025-10-24 03:32:23smallest plant parasitic nematodes. It was originally identified as a parasite of mango roots from India. A complete description of developmental stages...
Click to read more »Wasp
Kamis, 2026-04-30 22:10:35their own nests with such hosts. Unlike true parasites, the wasp larvae eventually kill their hosts. Solitary wasps parasitize almost every pest insect...
Click to read more »Tegument (helminth)
Rabu, 2026-03-25 08:50:43lipids, carbohydrates and RNA. It forms the protective layer and the host-parasite interface of the worms, serving both secretory and absorptive functions...
Click to read more »Jewish parasite
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 09:14:38The "Jewish parasite" is an antisemitic trope used mostly by Nazi Germany. It is based on the myth that the Jews of the diaspora are incapable of forming...
Click to read more »Heterodera zeae
Jumat, 2024-05-17 04:03:52protective cysts, which contain their eggs. The CCN is known to be capable of parasitizing and reproducing on 42 different members of the plant family Poaceae....
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Jumat, 2023-10-27 00:54:52A heteroecious parasite is one that requires at least two hosts. The primary host is the host in which the parasite spends its adult life; the other is...
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Rabu, 2026-05-27 06:47:31potential hosts, allowing the female to access a host nest. The young of some brood parasites are coloured to resemble the young of the host. For example...
Click to read more »Apicomplexa
Jumat, 2026-05-29 14:56:54general, one-host parasites of invertebrates. The adeleorins are one-host parasites of invertebrates or vertebrates, or two-host parasites that alternately...
Click to read more »Toxoplasma gondii
Senin, 2026-05-04 13:37:47members of the cat family (Felidae) are the only known definitive hosts in which the parasite may undergo sexual reproduction. In rodents, T. gondii alters...
Click to read more »Fish diseases and parasites
Minggu, 2026-05-24 07:19:54whirling disease. Velvet disease Parasites in fish are a common natural occurrence. Parasites can provide information about host population ecology. In fisheries...
Click to read more »Pratylenchus brachyurus
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 01:03:38wide range of hosts, P. brachyurus is an important nematode for scientist to study and try to develop a resistant variety of its host plants. The problem...
Click to read more »Parasites of phytoplankton
Senin, 2026-02-02 11:43:46penetrate host membranes. Following attachment, parasites may release enzymes into the host cytoplasm or begin feeding. In some cases, host cells engulf...
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Jumat, 2026-05-08 18:50:18from the host species, which is substantially unaffected. The commensal relation is often between a larger host and a smaller commensal; the host organism...
Click to read more »Xenomorph
Rabu, 2026-05-27 08:02:49where it is described that when a host is infested with a xenomorph embryo, it does not just infest the host like a parasite, but also like a virus, "a major...
Click to read more »Trichinella spiralis
Minggu, 2026-01-11 04:44:01Trichinella spiralis is a viviparous nematode parasite, occurring in rodents, pigs, bears, hyenas and humans, and is responsible for the disease trichinosis...
Click to read more »Dieter Ebert
Kamis, 2026-04-30 02:17:49known for his research on host–pathogen interaction and coevolution, mainly using the model system Daphnia and its parasites. Ebert obtained a diploma...
Click to read more »Parasitophorous vacuole
Senin, 2026-01-12 21:25:26apicomplexan parasites in the cells of its host. The PV allows the parasite to develop while protected from the phagolysosomes of the host cell. The PV...
Click to read more »Intestinal parasite infection
Jumat, 2026-02-06 21:41:39intestinal parasite infection is a condition in which a parasite infects the gastro-intestinal tract of humans and other animals. Such parasites can live...
Click to read more »Adaptation
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 04:57:20standing. This became known as the Red Queen hypothesis, as seen in host-parasite interactions. Existing genetic variation and mutation were the traditional...
Click to read more »Lutjanidae
Selasa, 2026-05-05 02:32:56species host parasites. A detailed study conducted in New Caledonia has shown that coral reef-associated snappers host about nine species of parasites per...
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Rabu, 2026-05-20 08:02:42Andreas; Biron, David G.; Joly, Cécile; Thomas, Frédéric (2005). "Host–parasite relations and seasonal occurrence of Paragordius tricuspidatus and Spinochordodes...
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Rabu, 2026-05-27 14:35:55more access to prospective hosts. The larval stage is the only parasitic stage of the mite's lifecycle. They are parasites to many animals. This often...
Click to read more »Amoebophrya
Kamis, 2026-05-28 22:19:36genus are syndinian parasites that infect free-living dinoflagellates and have varying degrees of host specificity The parasites might act as "biological...
Click to read more »Pea crab
Rabu, 2026-03-25 13:52:30Pinnotheres pisum, is a small crab in the family Pinnotheridae that lives as a parasite in oysters, clams, mussels, and other species of bivalves. Pinnotheres...
Click to read more »Core-satellite species hypothesis
Kamis, 2025-12-18 02:06:21core-satellite hypothesis and the r/K selection theory. An examination of host-parasite data was interpreted by some researchers including Robert May as suggesting...
Click to read more »Conservation biology of parasites
Jumat, 2026-05-29 07:44:26relationships with their hosts. The rationale for parasite conservation extends beyond their intrinsic value and ecological roles. Parasites offer potential benefits...
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Kamis, 2026-05-07 10:23:51on Witchweed (Striga asiatica) Seed Germination, Emergence, and Host-Parasitization". Weed Science. 32 (2): 202–205. Bibcode:1984WeedS..32..202B. doi:10...
Click to read more »Fasciola hepatica
Kamis, 2026-03-19 00:59:22been described, the parasite develops only in one or two major species on each continent. Galba truncatula is the main snail host in Europe, partly in...
Click to read more »Guppy
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 01:54:03also host to a range of parasites and one of these, the flatworm Gyrodactylus turnbulli, has been used as a model system for studying host-parasite interactions...
Click to read more »Heligmosomoides polygyrus
Minggu, 2026-03-22 23:09:04spectrum of natural resistance to parasite infection exists. Upon infection with H. polygyrus, innate and adaptive host immune responses are generated to...
Click to read more »Anopheles
Kamis, 2026-04-23 13:57:43on blood, which animal diet allows them to carry and transmit parasites between hosts. The adult's feeding position is head-down, unlike the horizontal...
Click to read more »Pasteuria ramosa
Rabu, 2026-01-14 13:32:52PMID 11475049. S2CID 35183797. Ebert, D. (2008). "Host-parasite coevolution: Insights from the Daphnia-parasite model system". Current Opinion in Microbiology...
Click to read more »Toxoplasmosis
Jumat, 2026-05-22 16:22:49significant neurological damage. The parasite's survival is dependent on a balance between host survival and parasite proliferation. T. gondii achieves this...
Click to read more »Trematoda
Jumat, 2026-06-05 01:40:12flukes. They are obligate internal parasites with a complex life cycle requiring at least two hosts. The intermediate host, in which asexual reproduction...
Click to read more »Ontological parasite
Rabu, 2026-02-25 16:35:56constitutes an ontological parasite. This inconsistency concerns whether something can be said to only exist as an aspect of its host. More debated examples...
Click to read more »Court jester hypothesis
Jumat, 2026-02-20 10:13:55environmental perturbations) both influence coevolutionary switching in host-parasite interaction. Barnosky acknowledges in the 2001 paper that the Court...
Click to read more »Heterodera sacchari
Selasa, 2024-08-06 15:05:29Merny, G (1963). "Heterodera sacchari n. sp. (Nematoda: Tylenchoidea) parasite de la canne a sucre au Congo-Brazzaville". Nematologica. 9: 31–37. doi:10...
Click to read more »List of antibiotics
Kamis, 2026-04-09 07:34:57Pelczar, M. J.; Chan, E. C. S. and Krieg, N. R. (1999) "Host-Parasite Interaction; Nonspecific Host Resistance", In: Microbiology Concepts and Applications...
Click to read more »Host switch
Kamis, 2026-03-26 23:59:02parasitology and epidemiology, a host switch (or host shift) is an evolutionary change of the host specificity of a parasite or pathogen. For example, the...
Click to read more »Cuterebra fontinella
Jumat, 2026-04-17 04:11:14fontinella develops by parasitizing nutrients from its host, typically the white-footed mouse. C. fontinella has even been known to parasitize humans in rare...
Click to read more »Mimicry in plants
Selasa, 2026-05-19 01:43:00two species. The potential host (or prey) drives away its parasite (or predator) by mimicking it, the reverse of host–parasite aggressive mimicry. Georges...
Click to read more »Globodera tabacum
Rabu, 2023-04-05 21:24:37borne parasite of the shade and broadleaf tobacco. The most important host plant for this nematode is tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum L), but other hosts include...
Click to read more »Metroid Fusion
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 20:18:31that the X parasites can replicate their hosts' appearances, and that the X have infected the station with the help of the SA-X, an X parasite mimicking...
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Jumat, 2026-03-20 21:30:32these parasites based on host-parasite co-evolution comparisons was North America or Asia, depending on whether the ancestral definitive hosts were canids...
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Minggu, 2026-05-17 22:00:46through an intermediate snail host before the next larval stage of the parasite emerges that can infect a new mammalian host by penetrating the skin. The...
Click to read more »Donax variabilis
Minggu, 2026-05-03 22:58:57to a depth of 11 m (36 ft). As most mollusks, the coquina is host to a variety of parasites. On the Atlantic Coast of the United States, studies have shown...
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Kamis, 2026-01-29 09:55:10study host-parasite immune interactions. The venom released by L. heterotoma during oviposition contains virus-like particles that delay host larval...
Click to read more »Brown-headed cowbird
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 02:27:37and rearing a cowbird chick can be costly to a host species. In the American redstart, nests parasitized by cowbirds were found to have a higher rate of...
Click to read more »Mechanism (biology)
Kamis, 2025-04-24 22:46:52mutation, and gene flow. In ecology, mechanisms such as predation and host-parasite interactions produce change in ecological systems. In practice, no description...
Click to read more »The Host (2006 film)
Selasa, 2026-05-26 00:03:17film's English title, The Host, can be analyzed as describing several of its themes: "A host is the opposite of the word of parasite. But if you were to expand...
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Jumat, 2026-03-06 13:25:16while others are parasites of a wide variety of hosts. Some six thousand species have been described; probably all vertebrates can host at least one species...
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Jumat, 2026-05-22 14:11:38needed] If a parasite has to infect a given host in order to complete its life cycle, then it is said to be an obligate parasite of that host; sometimes...
Click to read more »Parasite (1982 film)
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 05:25:17life form, a parasite that feeds on its host. Realizing the deadly potential of such a being, Dean escapes the Merchants with the parasite, infecting himself...
Click to read more »Chester Wilson Emmons
Rabu, 2026-02-25 09:12:55Medical Mycology Section. After studying botany at Penn College and the host-parasite relationship of Ampelomyces quisqualis at Columbia University, he transferred...
Click to read more »Avian vampire fly
Senin, 2026-05-04 12:44:44(2016-08-23). "Host-parasite ecology, behavior and genetics: a review of the introduced fly parasite Philornis downsi and its Darwin's finch hosts". BMC Zoology...
Click to read more »Carcinogenic parasite
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 16:17:46Carcinogenic parasites are parasitic organisms that depend on other organisms (called hosts) for their survival, and cause cancer in such hosts. Three species...
Click to read more »American toad
Kamis, 2026-02-05 05:49:23effects of novel leaf litter deposition on competitive, predator-prey and host-parasite interactions of American toad larvae". Aquatic Ecology. 56 (1): 59–73...
Click to read more »Parasitic disease
Rabu, 2026-04-15 21:45:56disease caused by parasites. Parasites are organisms which derive sustenance from its host while causing it harm. The study of parasites and parasitic diseases...
Click to read more »Trichobilharzia regenti
Rabu, 2026-03-25 09:58:49even in Iran. For its unique neurotropic behaviour in vertebrate hosts, the host-parasite interactions are extensively studied in terms of molecular biology...
Click to read more »Ribeiroia
Kamis, 2026-03-26 13:57:09of trematode parasites that sequentially infect freshwater snails in the family Planorbidae (ramshorn snails) as first intermediate hosts, fish and larval...
Click to read more »Trichinella
Selasa, 2026-03-31 07:38:26infected hosts. It has been shown to have a worldwide distribution in domestic and/or sylvatic animals. Trichinella is the smallest human nematode parasite, yet...
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Senin, 2025-12-15 13:19:06larvae to escape. In both cases, this extrusion of the female parasite or male pupa from the host abdomen is referred to as "stylopization", referring to the...
Click to read more »Sacculina
Minggu, 2026-04-19 23:09:25barnacle class Cirripedia. The prevalence of this crustacean parasite in its crab host can be as high as 50%. Sacculina live in a marine environment...
Click to read more »Sphaerospora molnari
Sabtu, 2025-12-20 22:46:00production of large numbers of host-free parasite stages for genomic/transcriptomic analyses, analyses on host-parasite interactions, and the establishment...
Click to read more »Bong Joon Ho filmography
Rabu, 2026-05-20 18:43:02(February 19, 2020). "Long before Parasite, Bong Joon-ho was skewering bloodsucking social systems in 2006's The Host". Vox. Archived from the original...
Click to read more »Trichostrongylus tenuis
Kamis, 2025-06-19 02:03:11and Stability of a Free-Living Host-Parasite System: Trichostrongylus tenuis in Red Grouse. I. Monitoring and Parasite Reduction Experiments". Journal...
Click to read more »Rhoptry
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 16:13:39during the process of host penetration. The proteins they contain are important in the interaction between the host and the parasite, including the formation...
Click to read more »Kudoa
Rabu, 2026-03-25 05:08:25family Kudoidae. There are approximately 100 species of Kudoa all of which parasitize on marine and estuarine fish. Kudoa are most commonly known and studied...
Click to read more »Urastoma cyprinae
Minggu, 2026-03-01 08:39:27by mucus that coats the gills of oysters. However, the nature of the host-parasite relationship remains unknown. Urastoma cyprinae is a ciliated turbellarian...
Click to read more »Common eider
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 10:54:09614–621. doi:10.1093/beheco/ark002. Andersson, M.; Waldeck, P. (2007). "Host-parasite kinship in a female-philopatric bird population: evidence from relatedness...
Click to read more »Ant colony
Kamis, 2026-04-30 01:41:08M. (7 June 2001). "Coevolution in host-parasite systems: Behavioural strategies of slave-making ants and their hosts". Proceedings of the Royal Society...
Click to read more »Acanthocephala
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 13:51:19proboscis. The proboscis is used to pierce the gut wall of the final host, and hold the parasite fast while it completes its life cycle. Like the body, the proboscis...
Click to read more »Conservation-induced extinction
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 02:02:03threatens the parasite and pathogen species that are highly host-specific to critically endangered hosts. When the last individuals of a host species are...
Click to read more »Aggregated distribution
Sabtu, 2025-06-21 20:54:54large number of parasites. Aggregated distribution of parasites across their hosts poses considerable problems for students of parasite ecology, as it...
Click to read more »Viviparous lizard
Rabu, 2026-05-27 01:06:38diversity of parasites is affected by the diet of the individual lizard and the number of parasites on a host is affected by the host's size. Results...
Click to read more »Oyster crab
Kamis, 2026-05-21 23:51:40as parasites on various hosts such as bivalves (oysters, mussels, clams, scallops, and cockles), which are located using chemical detection. The host type...
Click to read more »Borrelia burgdorferi
Kamis, 2026-02-19 18:20:35eubacteria, has no relation to either the bacteria's virulence or to the host-parasite interaction. Some of the plasmids are necessary for the B. burgdorferi...
Click to read more »Ostertagia ostertagi
Jumat, 2026-02-13 09:19:40vaccines is the complex and dynamic host-parasite interaction that is unique to each species of host and parasite, which is often influenced by several...
Click to read more »Trypanosoma cruzi
Kamis, 2026-05-28 19:26:27and surra in horses, and a brucellosis-like disease in cattle. Parasites need a host body and the haematophagous insect triatomine (descriptions "assassin...
Click to read more »Chrysis ignita
Senin, 2026-04-20 09:45:43observe the nest until the host leaves or hitch a ride on the prey to slip in. There are two basic strategies for parasitizing the host. In the first strategy...
Click to read more »Louse
Senin, 2026-05-18 07:10:15booklice, barklice or barkflies. Lice are obligate parasites, living externally on warm-blooded hosts, which include most species of bird and mammal, notably...
Click to read more »Community (ecology)
Rabu, 2026-04-22 05:50:12the host, is harmed while the other, the parasite, benefits. Parasitism is a symbiosis, a long-term bond in which the parasite feeds on the host or takes...
Click to read more »Balancing selection
Jumat, 2026-04-03 07:12:55disadvantage. This may lead to boom and bust cycles of prey morphs. Host-parasite interactions may also drive negative frequency-dependent selection,...
Click to read more »Cho Yeo-jeong
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 01:17:07Korean actress. She is best known internationally for her role in the film Parasite (2019), which won four Academy Awards and became the first non-English...
Click to read more »Hamiltosporidium
Senin, 2024-05-13 22:31:58nature as witnessed in H. tvaerminnensis. Both parasite species are vertically transmitted to asexual host offspring with a transmission rate of up to 100%...
Click to read more »Linguatula serrata
Jumat, 2026-05-15 19:31:12carnivores are normal hosts of this parasite. Apparently, almost any mammal is a potential intermediate host. The adult parasite is dorsoventrally flattened...
Click to read more »Plasmodium bouillize
Senin, 2024-04-15 23:25:34bouillize is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium and subgenus Vinckeia. As in all Plasmodium species, P. bouillize has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate...
Click to read more »Onchocerca volvulus
Jumat, 2026-05-01 09:59:28and humans are the only known definitive host. Onchocerca volvulus parasites obtain nutrients from the human host by ingesting blood or by diffusion through...
Click to read more »Pasteuria
Rabu, 2026-01-14 16:05:30during the infection process is related to the genotype of the host and the parasite. However, in phytonematodes there was no direct relationship between...
Click to read more »Ichthyophthirius multifiliis
Jumat, 2025-11-28 00:17:01with many children". The parasite can infect most freshwater fish species and, in contrast to many other parasites, shows low host specificity. It penetrates...
Click to read more »Microbial pathogenesis
Sabtu, 2023-08-26 12:45:20identifying previously unknown microbial pathogens and for studying the host-parasite relationship." In 1996, Fredricks and Relman suggested the following...
Click to read more »Entobdella soleae
Senin, 2026-03-23 05:43:49attachment to the host. Typically, 2-6 parasites are found on wild sole, but in intensive fish farms this can rise to 200-300 parasites per fish, causing...
Click to read more »Ectosymbiosis
Selasa, 2026-06-02 06:27:25species. In some species the symbiotic environment provided by both the parasite and host are mutually beneficial. In recent research it has been found that...
Click to read more »Rhodnius prolixus
Senin, 2025-05-26 10:41:22Rhodnius prolixus is the principal triatomine vector of the Chagas parasite due to both its sylvatic and domestic populations in northern South America...
Click to read more »Microphallus turgidus
Selasa, 2024-09-10 23:06:13Following successful establishment, the parasite then undergoes asexual reproduction, replacing much of the host's reproductive tissue and digestive gland...
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Kamis, 2026-05-28 22:53:04PMID 17923487. Pelczar MJ, Chan EC, Krieg NR (2010). "Host-Parasite Interaction; Nonspecific Host Resistance". Microbiology Concepts and Applications (6th ed...
Click to read more »Antarctica
Jumat, 2026-06-05 20:07:37V. (26 August 2020). "Arthropod parasites of Antarctic and Subantarctic birds and pinnipeds: A review of host-parasite associations". International Journal...
Click to read more »Botfly
Rabu, 2026-05-20 07:55:47the family Oestridae. Their larvae are internal parasites of mammals, some species growing in the host's flesh and others within the gut. Dermatobia hominis...
Click to read more »Polistes semenowi
Rabu, 2025-11-26 23:14:11social parasites, sometimes referred to as "cuckoo paper wasps", and its host is the congeneric species Polistes dominula. As an obligate social parasite, this...
Click to read more »The Extended Phenotype
Minggu, 2026-03-15 19:11:06is parasite manipulation. This refers to the capacity, found in some parasite-host interactions, for the parasite to modify the behaviour of the host in...
Click to read more »Leucocytozoon
Rabu, 2026-03-25 14:04:43includes the malaria parasites). The species of this genus use either blackflies (Simulium species) or a biting midge as their definitive host and birds as their...
Click to read more »Profilicollis
Senin, 2025-06-09 19:41:15(final) hosts. This parasite first develops in the haemocoel or digestive gland of shore crabs, which are the intermediate host. The species of crabs...
Click to read more »Thelazia callipaeda
Kamis, 2025-05-22 07:26:15Croatia and Thailand. In 2021, the parasite was additionally found in the United States. Two intermediate hosts have been identified so far: Phortica...
Click to read more »Clayton Oscar Person
Rabu, 2025-08-20 19:55:551990) was recognized internationally as an authority on the genetics of host-parasite relations. He was born and raised in Aylesbury, Saskatchewan, Canada...
Click to read more »Megabat
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 16:14:55(Diptera) bat flies from the Malagasy region and insights on host-parasite interactions". Parasites & Vectors. 10 (1): 630. doi:10.1186/s13071-017-2582-x. PMC 5747079...
Click to read more »Mycoparasitism
Rabu, 2025-12-17 06:50:30the ability to parasitize fungi. Mycoparasites might be biotrophic or necrotrophic, depending on the type of interaction with their host. Various plants...
Click to read more »Orgyia antiqua
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 16:57:43Virginia. Retrieved 21 March 2026. Arnaud Jr., Paul Henri (1978). "A Host-parasite Catalog of North American Tachinidae (Diptera)". Miscellaneous Publication...
Click to read more »Barney and Betty Hill incident
Minggu, 2026-05-31 09:09:28an alien intelligence which orchestrates a conspiracy of human "hosts" (parasitized by the alien organism) and willing servants. The process of becoming...
Click to read more »Pathogen avoidance
Senin, 2025-12-15 20:30:55fitness benefits for the parasite. Parasites can affect host behavior in multiple ways by altering host activity, the host's microenvironment or both...
Click to read more »Gongylonema pulchrum
Jumat, 2025-01-24 05:18:48only parasite of the genus Gongylonema capable of infecting humans. Gongylonema pulchrum infections are due to humans acting as accidental hosts for the...
Click to read more »Western meadowlark
Minggu, 2026-05-03 01:19:24Prairie Naturalist. vol. 16, no. 4. pp. 177–182. Hill RA. (1976). "Host Parasite Relationships of the Brown-Headed Cowbird in a Prairie Habitat of West...
Click to read more »Strongyloides stercoralis
Rabu, 2026-04-01 10:54:50autoinfection (the parasite has the ability to complete its life cycle without the involvement of another host) and multiplication within the host. The parasitic...
Click to read more »Trypanosoma lewisi
Kamis, 2026-05-28 19:26:33globally distributed parasite of Rattus species and other rodents such as mice, and of kangaroo rats in America. Among these host species were two endemic...
Click to read more »List of organisms by chromosome count
Selasa, 2026-05-26 21:33:22algae and protozoa, in column "HAP"). Nuismer SL, Otto SP (July 2004). "Host-parasite interactions and the evolution of ploidy". Proceedings of the National...
Click to read more »Feather hole
Kamis, 2025-09-25 19:35:42behavioral aspects of host-parasite interactions based on the assumption that holes were chewed by Machaerilaemus malleus. More specifically, host sexual selection...
Click to read more »Density dependence
Rabu, 2026-04-22 05:53:47within the human host that suppress immunity against incoming infective L3 larvae. This suppression of anti-parasite immunity causes parasite establishment...
Click to read more »Tomisaku Kawasaki
Senin, 2026-03-09 04:07:37over 40 years. After 10 years of researching milk allergy and unusual host-parasite cases, he saw a 4-year-old boy presenting with a myriad of clinical...
Click to read more »Pied avocet
Selasa, 2026-06-02 04:56:27stratégies de rencontre hôte-parasite" [Cestodiasis in Camargue Avifauna: Role of Artemia (Crustacea, Anostraca) and Host-Parasite Encounter Strategies] (PDF)...
Click to read more »Jjimjilbang
Rabu, 2026-03-25 01:45:06clothes increasing atopy symptoms in patients, or even of accidentally hosting parasites, have been voiced, although evidence was inconclusive. Currently,...
Click to read more »Rozella
Minggu, 2026-05-24 01:52:58zoosporangium within the host. Polysporangiate species form multiple zoosporangia that are separated with septa. Most described species are parasites of Oomycota,...
Click to read more »Echinococcus granulosus
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 16:16:52dogs and wild carnivores as a definitive host for the adult tapeworm. Definitive hosts are where parasites reach maturity and reproduce. Wild or domesticated...
Click to read more »Isospora sylvianthina
Rabu, 2024-07-31 03:45:23(2003) pp. 71–80. Dolnik, Olga (2003). Some aspects of the biology and host-parasite interactions of Isospora spp. (Protozoa: Coccidiida) of passerine birds...
Click to read more »Kretzschmaria deusta
Kamis, 2026-04-30 11:47:30The fungus continues to decay wood after the host tree has died, making K. deusta a facultative parasite. Studies show the possibility of a Trichoderma...
Click to read more »Parasite Rex
Kamis, 2026-01-29 14:03:19Parasite Rex: Inside the Bizarre World of Nature's Most Dangerous Creatures is a nonfiction book by Carl Zimmer that was published by Free Press in 2000...
Click to read more »Cryptosporidium
Kamis, 2026-02-19 02:17:26immunocompetent hosts.[clarification needed] Other apicomplexan pathogens of humans include the malaria parasite Plasmodium and the toxoplasmosis parasite Toxoplasma...
Click to read more »Isospora sylviae
Selasa, 2024-07-30 23:08:05(2003) pp. 71–80. Dolnik, Olga (2003). Some aspects of the biology and host-parasite interactions of Isospora spp. (Protozoa: Coccidiida) of passerine birds...
Click to read more »Sacculina carcini
Rabu, 2026-02-25 04:15:39to absorb nourishment and enable the parasite to control the behavior of its host. The presence of the parasite inhibits the development of the crab's...
Click to read more »Leishmania donovani
Rabu, 2025-10-01 02:07:41Ross. The parasite requires two different hosts for a complete life cycle, humans as the definitive host and sandflies as the intermediate host. In some...
Click to read more »Muellerius capillaris
Rabu, 2026-02-11 04:11:11location of the snail and slug intermediate hosts the parasite uses in its life cycle. The natural intermediate host of M. capillaris is a species of terrestrial...
Click to read more »Dicrocoelium dendriticum
Kamis, 2026-05-07 20:21:58method of transfer of the parasite. Shortly thereafter, the ant Formica fusca was found to be the second intermediate host by which sheep were infected...
Click to read more »Schistosoma japonicum
Jumat, 2026-05-22 17:20:03japonicum is an important parasite and one of the major infectious agents of schistosomiasis. This parasite has a very wide host range, infecting at least...
Click to read more »Extinction threshold
Rabu, 2026-04-22 05:51:57346-353. Deredec, A. and Courchamp, F, 2003:Extinction Thresholds in Host-Parasite Dynamics, Ann. Zool. Fennic. 40:115-130. Cuaresma, Diane Carmeliza N...
Click to read more »Anisakis
Jumat, 2026-04-17 16:19:07needed] As with all parasites with a complex life cycle involving several hosts, details of the morphology vary depending on the host and life cycle stage...
Click to read more »Dental plaque
Selasa, 2026-05-26 02:21:01bacteria to survive. Gingivitis is an inflammatory lesion, mediated by host-parasite interactions that remains localized to the gingival tissue. This is...
Click to read more »Cotesia congregata
Rabu, 2026-03-25 15:35:43polydnaviruses. Parasitoids are distinct from true parasites in that a parasitoid will ultimately kill its host or otherwise sterilize it. Adult wasps lay their...
Click to read more »Mangrove finch
Kamis, 2026-05-21 09:28:40(2016-08-23). "Host-parasite ecology, behavior and genetics: a review of the introduced fly parasite Philornis downsi and its Darwin's finch hosts". BMC Zoology...
Click to read more »Ecological fitting
Rabu, 2026-01-21 20:30:15temperature and water regime), form new species interactions (e.g. a parasite infecting a new host), or both, which can lead to the misinterpretation of the relationship...
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Sabtu, 2022-12-31 05:21:34Syzygites megalocarpus (Mucoraceae, Mucorales, Zygomycetes) and its host-parasite association in the contiguous United States (Masters of Science). Southern...
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Selasa, 2026-06-02 22:27:24[deficient citation] (September 1999). "Reciprocal Natural Selection on Host-Parasite Phenotypes" (PDF). The American Naturalist. 154 (3): 261–270. Bibcode:1999ANat...
Click to read more »Plasmodium draconis
Minggu, 2024-04-14 04:03:12apicomplexan parasite in the family Plasmodiidae. Like all Plasmodium species P. draconis has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this...
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Senin, 2026-03-30 07:41:38PMID 23382420 Haven J, Park AW (2013), "Superinfection reconciles host–parasite association and cross-species transmission", Theoretical Population...
Click to read more »Ecoimmunology
Senin, 2026-04-13 12:59:20is expected to favor parasite manipulation of the host when the host's behavior creates a suboptimal environment for the parasite's fitness. An application...
Click to read more »Plasmodium pelaezi
Selasa, 2024-01-09 22:36:15pelaezi is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Sauramoeba. As in all Plasmodium species P. pelaezi has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate...
Click to read more »Parasite-stress theory
Jumat, 2026-05-01 16:05:57between expression of secondary sexual characteristics and parasite intensity, as well as level of host immune functioning. Consistent with the hypothesis proposed...
Click to read more »Fraxinus pennsylvanica
Jumat, 2026-04-24 08:37:13Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the Genetics of Host-parasite Interactions in Forestry: Disease and Insect Resistance in Forest Trees:...
Click to read more »Nancy Beckage
Minggu, 2025-03-09 00:11:20Parasites and Pathogens: Effects on Host Hormones and Behavior (Chapman & Hall; 1997) N. E. Beckage, S. N. Thompson, B. A. Federici, eds. Parasites and...
Click to read more »Coelioxys sodalis
Rabu, 2025-10-22 20:30:50are referred to as cuckoo bees. These host-parasite relationships are complex. Host insects of the brood parasite C. sodalis include Megachile melanophaea...
Click to read more »Commercial butterfly breeding
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 01:39:30"Migratory behaviour and host–parasite co-evolution in natural populations of monarch butterflies infected with a protozoan parasite". Evolutionary Ecology...
Click to read more »Myrmeconema neotropicum
Minggu, 2026-03-22 23:37:18a tetradonematid nematode parasite. It appears to induce fruit mimicry in the tropical ant. Presently, the only known host species is Cephalotes atratus...
Click to read more »Ecology
Jumat, 2026-06-05 23:58:17cospeciation: Comparing rates of evolution and timing of cospeciation events in host-parasite assemblages". Systematic Zoology. 40 (2): 188–198. doi:10.2307/2992256...
Click to read more »Ecology of fear
Senin, 2026-05-18 13:07:12examined whether similar processes occur in host-parasite and host-pathogen interactions. Related work on parasite avoidance has also been described as the...
Click to read more »Archytas apicifer
Jumat, 2026-03-13 20:09:59Education Administration; California Academy of Sciences (1978). A Host-parasite Catalog of North American Tachinidae (Diptera). Department of Agriculture...
Click to read more »Fluctuating selection
Jumat, 2024-10-18 06:27:14polymorphism. When two species exert selection on one another, e.g. a host and its parasite, this can lead to fluctuating selection dynamics. The Red Queen...
Click to read more »PhyloXML
Jumat, 2026-05-22 19:30:41data) evolution of host-parasite interactions (requires annotation of tree nodes with taxonomic information for both host and parasite) phylogeographic...
Click to read more »Mycoloop
Senin, 2026-02-09 10:13:47trophic links. Parasites can modulate trophic flows in a number of ways. They can drive reductions in host biomass, not only by increasing host mortality rates...
Click to read more »Concomitant immunity
Senin, 2025-04-21 11:43:31PMID 36456599. Mitchell, Graham F. (1990). "A Note on Concomitant Immunity in Host-Parasite Relationships: A Successfully Transplanted Concept from Tumor Immunology"...
Click to read more »Garden warbler
Kamis, 2026-05-21 10:15:31predators. It may be host to various fleas, mites and internal parasites, and it is a host of the common cuckoo, a brood parasite. The large and fairly...
Click to read more »Song Kang-ho
Selasa, 2026-05-12 16:50:59(2003), The Host (2006), Snowpiercer (2013), and Parasite (2019). Song rose to wider international prominence for his performance in Parasite, which won...
Click to read more »Elvio Sadun
Senin, 2026-03-23 09:02:47human immunologic reaction to parasitic diseases, or more precisely, host-parasite immunological interactions. Sadun made seminal contributions to the...
Click to read more »Nycteribia
Rabu, 2026-03-25 13:59:20(Diptera) bat flies from the Malagasy region and insights on host-parasite interactions". Parasites & Vectors. 10 (1): 630. doi:10.1186/s13071-017-2582-x. PMC 5747079...
Click to read more »Microsporidia
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 16:01:42fungi. These fungal microbes are obligate eukaryotic parasites that use a unique mechanism to infect host cells. They have recently been discovered in a 2017...
Click to read more »Recurrence relation
Selasa, 2026-05-12 15:26:17or more populations. For example, the Nicholson–Bailey model for a host-parasite interaction is given by N t + 1 = λ N t e − a P t {\displaystyle N_{t+1}=\lambda...
Click to read more »Blacktip reef shark
Selasa, 2026-05-19 07:43:30(Tetraphyllidea: Onchobothriidae), with a phylogenetic analysis and comments on host-parasite associations". Systematic Parasitology. 56 (2): 85–139. doi:10.1023/A:1026135528505...
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Minggu, 2026-03-08 05:01:23DG, Wang P, Zalucki MP, Groot AT (2020). "Parasite-host specificity: A cross-infection study of the parasite Ophryocystis elektroscirrha". Journal of Invertebrate...
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Selasa, 2025-10-07 21:17:33at University of Oxford, specialising in how interactions between hosts and parasites show evolutionary change. Kayla Christina King studied B. Sc. Zoology...
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Minggu, 2026-02-08 01:23:59All parasites need a mechanism for spreading to new individual hosts. Parasites in the lower gastrointestinal tract usually shed eggs in the host feces...
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Jumat, 2026-05-08 01:54:37W.; de Bruin, A.; Kagami, M.; Rijkeboer, M.; van Donk, E. (2004). "Host parasite interactions between freshwater phytolankton and chytrid fungi (chytridiomycota)"...
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Jumat, 2026-04-10 05:00:48understanding host–parasite relationships in herpetofauna. While infections are often mild, heavy infestations can lead to health problems in the host. Genera:...
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Kamis, 2025-05-08 02:41:45development of immunity by the human host. Another defining feature of P. malariae is that the fever manifestations of the parasite are more moderate relative to...
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Minggu, 2026-06-07 00:02:13inbred genome of the cattle parasite Neospora caninum. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA Innes E, Wright S, Bartley P (2005) The host-parasite relationship in bovine...
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Jumat, 2026-02-13 06:46:11more than 100 species of tick-borne parasites that infect erythrocytes (red blood cells) in many vertebrate hosts. Babesia species infect livestock worldwide...
Click to read more »Neuroparasitology
Rabu, 2026-05-20 09:43:04field encompasses the study of parasites that infect, interact with, or otherwise affect the nervous system of their hosts, resulting in changes to brain...
Click to read more »Trematode life cycle stages
Senin, 2026-05-25 08:55:04a host tissue on the second intermediate host. They have a hard shell and are also involved in the trophic transmission. This is where the parasite is...
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Rabu, 2026-05-06 23:45:25from host neutral lipid droplets. GRA proteins also are involved in host protein uptake into the parasite. GRA proteins secreted into the host cell cytosol...
Click to read more »Steinernema carpocapsae
Jumat, 2025-10-03 08:00:05kills its hosts within a few days of infection. This parasite releases its bacterial symbiont along with a variety of proteins into the host after infection...
Click to read more »Vince Smith (cybertaxonomist)
Senin, 2026-03-09 02:39:19specialising on parasitic lice (Phthiraptera). He went on to research host-parasite evolution at the University of Glasgow and then the Illinois Natural...
Click to read more »Polypodium hydriforme
Kamis, 2026-03-26 13:48:43morphological description of the parasite. Polypodium was long considered a unique intracellular parasite among cnidarians. Its hosts include 14 species of Acipenser...
Click to read more »Heterophyes heterophyes
Senin, 2026-04-13 10:38:08Snails that are competent hosts for this parasite include Cerithideopsilla conica. Fish that come in contact with this parasite include Mugil cephalus,...
Click to read more »Signalling theory
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 18:26:40also used to model interspecific interactions such as predator-prey, host-parasite or plant-pollinator signalling. Symmetric games can be used to model...
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Jumat, 2026-05-29 08:03:38(2009). "Predator–spreaders: Predation can enhance parasite success in a planktonic host–parasite system". Ecology. 90 (10): 2850–2858. doi:10.1890/08-2154...
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Rabu, 2025-11-19 02:45:17Palomares-Rius, J. E.; Castillo, P. (March 2013). "Pathogenicity and Host–Parasite Relationships of Heterodera cruciferae in Cabbage". Plant Disease. 97...
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Senin, 2026-02-16 18:25:55the instars of butterfly development. G. l. palosverdesensis has a host-parasite relationship with its larval food plants, Astragalus lonchus and Lotus...
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Jumat, 2025-10-03 18:55:47Tischlerd, Xichen Zhange, Ronald Fayerf and Altaf A Lala. Host adaptation and host–parasite co-evolution in Cryptosporidium: implications for taxonomy...
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Senin, 2026-02-09 20:23:24interactions between species, usually as bipartite networks such as hosts-parasites, plants-pollinators, etc.). A system (usually represented as a matrix)...
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Selasa, 2026-06-02 23:12:44; Hall, M. J. R.; Scholl, P. J. (2006). The oestrid flies: biology, host-parasite relationships, impact and management. Wallingford: CABI.{{cite book}}:...
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Sabtu, 2025-11-15 22:37:05having complex life cycles involving more than one host. For example, Microphallus piriformes parasitizes the rough periwinkle (Littorina saxatilis); when...
Click to read more »Xiphinema diversicaudatum
Kamis, 2025-07-31 19:28:22characteristically long stylet capable of penetrating into a host's vascular tissue. They have a wide host range with some of the extensively studied ones being...
Click to read more »Cotesia glomerata
Kamis, 2026-03-26 14:00:56parasitize a wide range of Pieris butterfly species as host, but the large white (Pieris brassicae) and small white (Pieris rapae) are the main hosts...
Click to read more »Gnathostoma
Kamis, 2026-05-21 07:29:37primary host parasitized by the species (generally a family of carnivorous or omnivorous mammals), the location parasitized inside the host's body, the...
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Rabu, 2026-01-14 13:38:59population size affect rates of molecular evolution: Mitochondrial data for host/parasite species pairs in bees suggests not". Ecology and Evolution. 12 (2) e8562...
Click to read more »Plasmodium iguanae
Senin, 2025-02-03 09:13:45parasite of the genus Plasmodium. Like all Plasmodium species P. iguanae has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite...
Click to read more »False killer whale
Selasa, 2026-05-26 02:53:17humpback whales at the same time. The false killer whale is known to host parasites: trematode Nasitrema in the sinuses, nematode Stenurus in the sinuses...
Click to read more »Echinococcus multilocularis
Jumat, 2026-03-20 21:31:16eggs of E. multilocularis. The parasite is commonly maintained in a wildlife life cycle involving two mammalian hosts. Wild canids, dogs, and less commonly...
Click to read more »List of brood parasitic passerines
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 03:25:48brood parasites deposit their eggs in the nests of other birds. The vampire ground finch is a parasite, but is not brood parasitic. Some primary host species...
Click to read more »Plasmodium achromaticum
Senin, 2024-04-15 23:25:34achromaticum is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Vinckeia. As in all Plasmodium species, P. achromaticum has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate...
Click to read more »Angiostrongylus cantonensis
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 13:56:53Angiostrongylus cantonensis is a nematode (roundworm) parasite that causes angiostrongyliasis, an infection that is the most common cause of eosinophilic...
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Rabu, 2026-03-25 05:08:46reinforces successful radiation of Myxobolus in mugiliform hosts". Parasite. 30: 26. doi:10.1051/parasite/2023029. PMC 10318956. Kaur, H; Singh, R (2011). "Two...
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Rabu, 2025-01-15 02:17:25Parque Estadual da Cantareira, São Paulo, Brazil: Parasitism rates and host-parasite associations". Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 100 (1): 25–32. doi:10...
Click to read more »Ribeiroia ondatrae
Sabtu, 2025-04-12 15:18:12Ribeiroia ondatrae, or the frog-mutating flatworm is a parasite in the genus Ribeiroia which is believed to be responsible for many of the recent increases...
Click to read more »Compsilura concinnata
Jumat, 2026-03-13 21:25:21different types of hosts, it has spilled over from the intended forest systems into other areas such as agricultural fields, parasitizing such cabbage pests...
Click to read more »Amoebic liver abscess
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 13:53:48has provided important information on molecules and mechanisms of the host/parasite interaction in amebic liver abscess. Genitourinary amoebiasis Nespola...
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Senin, 2025-12-29 15:01:12predation by birds, the primary host. These broodsacs visually imitate caterpillars, a prey of birds. The adult parasite lives in the bird's cloaca, releasing...
Click to read more »Toxocara canis
Minggu, 2026-02-15 02:44:47'flesh'. T. canis live in the small intestine of the definitive host. This parasite is very common in puppies and somewhat less common in adult dogs...
Click to read more »Paragordius tricuspidatus
Kamis, 2026-02-19 17:05:07hairworms: should the host collaborate?". Behavioral Ecology. 16 (3): 656–660. doi:10.1093/beheco/ari039. hdl:10.1093/beheco/ari039. "The parasite a cricket's nightmares...
Click to read more »Biological rules
Kamis, 2026-04-30 07:32:37by W. D. Hamilton. Harrison's rule states that parasite body sizes co-vary with those of their hosts. He proposed the rule for lice, but later authors...
Click to read more »Gastropod-borne parasitic disease
Senin, 2025-10-06 02:34:17an intermediate host for a parasitic organism (typically a nematode or trematode) that can infect humans upon ingesting the parasite or coming into contact...
Click to read more »Kudoa thyrsites
Kamis, 2026-03-26 13:50:46is a myxosporean parasite of marine fishes. It has a worldwide distribution, and infects a wide range of host species. This parasite is responsible for...
Click to read more »Henneguya zschokkei
Jumat, 2026-04-17 05:26:25parent organism, thereafter becoming a separate species that parasitized other animals. Known hosts of Henneguya zschokkei include: Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (Pink...
Click to read more »Plasmodium knowlesi
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 16:14:06Plasmodium knowlesi is a parasite that causes malaria in humans and other primates. It is found throughout Southeast Asia, and is the most common cause...
Click to read more »Adeleorina
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 13:51:29sporozoites enter the vertebrate host during blood-feeding of the vector (Dactylosoma, Haemogregarina) Ingestion — the parasite is transmitted by the ingestion...
Click to read more »Pennellidae
Sabtu, 2023-10-14 22:22:15When anchored on a host, they have a portion of the body on the outside of the host, whereas the remaining anterior part of the parasite is hidden inside...
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Jumat, 2026-05-01 19:49:20Joanne P Webster; Glenn A McConkey (21 September 2011). "The neurotropic parasite Toxoplasma gondii increases dopamine metabolism". PLOS One. 6 (9): e23866...
Click to read more »Acomatacarus
Selasa, 2026-05-19 23:50:45ranking of major trombiculid subtaxa with remarks on the evolution of host-parasite relationships (Acariformes: Parasitengona: Trombiculidae)". Annales...
Click to read more »Dipylidium
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 23:01:50The adult tapeworm grows within the host for 3–4 weeks after initial infection. The number of parasites the host is initially infected with is directly...
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Sabtu, 2026-05-23 13:53:43E. histolytica parasite. E. histolytica causes tissue damage by three main events: direct host cell killing, inflammation, and parasite invasion. The pathogenesis...
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Senin, 2025-06-09 09:50:18Brouwers JF, Kruize YC, Schmitz M, Kurt-Jones EA, et al. (2002). "A novel host-parasite lipid cross-talk. Schistosomal lyso-phosphatidylserine activates toll-like...
Click to read more »Gilbertian mimicry
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 04:03:38mimicry in plants involving only two species, a host or prey animal which is the mimic, and its parasite or predator, which is both the model for the mimicry...
Click to read more »List of Plasmodium species
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 02:50:40and may displace the host nucleus Merozoites have a "signet-ring" appearance due to a large vacuole that forces the parasite's nucleus to one pole Schizonts...
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Senin, 2024-07-15 20:55:07& Tartally, A. (2018) Host age determines parasite load of Laboulbeniales fungi infecting ants: Implications for host-parasite relationship and fungal...
Click to read more »Cooperia oncophora
Minggu, 2026-04-05 03:18:58compounds that are secreted from the parasite and it constitutes the primary interface between parasite and host and may be further exploited as potential...
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Selasa, 2024-01-30 00:36:102000. His main research fields are Co-operation, Sexual selection and Host-parasite co-evolution. He is a member of the Leopoldina and the Faculty of 1000...
Click to read more »Veterinary parasitology
Kamis, 2024-08-15 03:33:31tissue samples from the host animal. Coprological examinations involve examining the feces of animals to identify and count parasite eggs. Some common methods...
Click to read more »Plasmodium booliati
Senin, 2024-04-15 23:25:34booliati is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Vinckeia. As in all Plasmodium species, P. booliati has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate...
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Rabu, 2026-05-20 11:35:31ISSN 0008-4301. Aykut, Medeni; Esen, Yunus; Taşar, Gani Erhan (2016-07-03). "New host-parasite association of Acherontacarus rutilans (Acari, Hydrachnidia, Acherontacaridae)...
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Kamis, 2026-01-22 20:05:09brood parasite to be of particular interest as, unlike many brood parasites, it does not directly oviposit in the hosts' nests. P. rebeli parasitizes the...
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Senin, 2026-05-18 08:14:29about the previously unknown diversity of this parasite in different regions. The species infecting avian hosts have been divided into two subgenera — Haemoproteus...
Click to read more »Trypanosoma brucei
Jumat, 2026-05-29 01:43:26Trypanosoma that is present in sub-Saharan Africa. Unlike other protozoan parasites that normally infect blood and tissue cells, it is exclusively extracellular...
Click to read more »Slender suckerfish
Minggu, 2025-10-05 18:19:19on scraps of fish and plankton, as opposed to more host-dependent remoras that feed on host parasites. Nothing is known of its reproduction. Collette, B...
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Senin, 2026-03-23 10:27:50Martin (2011). "How to evade a coevolving brood parasite: egg discrimination versus egg variability as host defences". Proceedings of the Royal Society B:...
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Rabu, 2026-02-25 02:45:5122: 438–439. Retrieved 15 April 2018. Morgan, Banner Bill (1946). "Host-parasite Relationships and Geographical Distribution of the Physalopterinae (Nematoda)"...
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Senin, 2026-03-09 02:48:29of disturbance in structuring natural communities and the ecology of host-parasite interactions. In his lab, students work alongside Sousa on research...
Click to read more »Chalioides vitrea
Jumat, 2026-06-05 07:58:29Chalioides vitrea". HOSTS - a Database of the World's Lepidopteran Hostplants. The Natural History Museum. Retrieved 14 November 2018. Host-Parasite list v t e...
Click to read more »Planorbella
Senin, 2026-05-18 21:00:22sometimes hosts for parasites, constituting a link in the pathway of infection for higher animals. For example, some species of Planorbella host rediae and...
Click to read more »The Host (2013 film)
Rabu, 2026-03-25 22:35:26The Host is a 2013 American romantic science fiction thriller film written for the screen and directed by Andrew Niccol, based on the 2008 novel by Stephenie...
Click to read more »Parasites and pathogens of wolves
Minggu, 2026-03-15 23:43:12Wolves may suffer from various pathogens, both viral and bacterial, and parasite, both external and internal. Parasitic infection in wolves is of particular...
Click to read more »Ecological competence
Sabtu, 2026-01-24 18:32:13with which a host transmits a parasite to another susceptible host or vector. It is a key determinant of epidemiological dynamics for parasites with more...
Click to read more »Leucocytozoon andrewsi
Rabu, 2026-03-25 14:04:45is a parasite of the genus Leucocytozoon. Like all Leucocytozoon species L. andrewsi has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The invertebrate hosts belong...
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Senin, 2025-09-01 08:44:15microsporidian parasite proliferating inside the host cell. This results in a 'symbiotic co-existence' between the parasite and the host cell. This forms...
Click to read more »Pathosystem
Minggu, 2026-01-18 00:35:48which the host species is a plant. The parasite is any species in which the individual spends a significant part of its lifespan inhabiting one host individual...
Click to read more »List of diseases and parasites in cod
Minggu, 2025-06-08 22:20:11variety of diseases and parasites. Lernaeocera branchialis, the "cod worm", is a copepod that infects gadoids. The first host used by cod worm is a flatfish...
Click to read more »Apicomplexan life cycle
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 16:20:26result of merogony that takes place within a host cell. During this stage, the parasite infects the host's cells and then replicates its own nucleus and...
Click to read more »Plasmodium falciparum
Kamis, 2026-05-21 08:24:02unicellular protozoan parasite of humans and is the deadliest species of Plasmodium that causes malaria in humans. The parasite is transmitted through...
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Rabu, 2025-05-21 22:00:23192L. doi:10.1111/syen.12320. S2CID 92508094. Torretta, J.P. (2015). "Host–parasite relationships and life cycles of cuckoo wasps in agro-ecosystems in...
Click to read more »Zanvil A. Cohn
Selasa, 2026-05-19 03:18:01the shift in mid-twentieth-century research from bacterial cells to host-parasite relationships." Cohn was born in New York City, the son of David and...
Click to read more »Common barbel
Rabu, 2025-10-01 23:44:00"Understanding trophic interactions in host-parasite associations using stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen". Parasites & Vectors. 10 (1): 90. doi:10...
Click to read more »Animal suicide
Selasa, 2026-05-05 18:43:58are victims of parasites that are known to alter the behavior of their host to complete their lifecycle, which results in the host's death. The debate...
Click to read more »Anisakidae
Kamis, 2026-05-21 07:54:13the parasite, it then can reach the definitive host, or final host, through the consumption of the infected fish. The prevalence of this parasite in humans...
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Senin, 2026-05-18 22:28:53English Language for Parasite at the 73rd British Academy Film Awards. Tied with Sam Mendes for 1917. Local French cinema showcase hosted by French luxury...
Click to read more »Competitive exclusion principle
Sabtu, 2025-11-01 00:45:35are more likely to be generalists. Host-parasite models are effective ways of examining this relationship, using host transfer events. There seem to be...
Click to read more »Plasmodium gabaldoni
Sabtu, 2024-04-13 01:12:20insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are birds. The parasite was first described by Garnham in 1977. This parasite is found in Venezuela. P...
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Senin, 2026-05-11 20:06:2427, 2019, the Academy held its 11th Annual Governors Awards ceremony. Parasite won four awards including Best Picture, becoming the first non-English...
Click to read more »Phoradendron californicum
Senin, 2026-05-18 12:00:22specialization of different populations of the same parasite species to different hosts in an environment. Host race evolution can possibly lead to speciation...
Click to read more »Devendra Prasad Gupta
Rabu, 2026-05-20 23:42:45Retrieved 23 February 2018. Prasad Gupta, Devendra (1970). Studies on the Host Parasite Relationship in the Verticillium Wilt Disease of Lucerne (PhD). Diss...
Click to read more »Apheloria corrugata
Senin, 2026-05-18 03:53:06This millipede is one of three polydesmid species known to be a host for the parasite Arthrophaga myriapodina, a fungus in the order Entomophthorales...
Click to read more »Acanthocheilonema
Rabu, 2025-09-17 01:02:43South Africa in the nineteenth century. These parasites have a wide range of mammalian species as hosts, including members of Carnivora, Macroscelidea...
Click to read more »Plasmodium egerniae
Rabu, 2026-03-04 11:04:15egerniae is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Sauramoeba. Like all Plasmodium species P. egerniae has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate...
Click to read more »Plasmodium paranucleophilum
Senin, 2023-11-06 04:02:29is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Novyella. As in all Plasmodium species, P. paranucleophilum has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate...
Click to read more »Juga silicula
Kamis, 2026-05-21 15:41:01anthropogenic factors. J. silicula acts as a first intermediate host for the trematode parasite Cephalouterina dicamptodoni. Ching, H. L. (1957). The morphology...
Click to read more »Myxobolus cerebralis
Kamis, 2026-03-26 13:51:02oligochaete (a kind of segmented worm) to complete its life cycle. The parasite infects its hosts with its cells after piercing them with polar filaments ejected...
Click to read more »Schistosoma mansoni
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 10:04:25schistosomes includes two hosts: humans as definitive hosts, where the parasite undergoes sexual reproduction, and snails as intermediate hosts, where a series...
Click to read more »Diseases and parasites in salmon
Minggu, 2025-09-28 02:19:19number of parasites. Henneguya and other parasites in the myxosporean group have a complex life cycle where the salmon is one of two hosts. The fish releases...
Click to read more »Euderus set
Senin, 2026-04-20 02:55:18"Tales from the crypt: a parasitoid manipulates the behaviour of its parasite host". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284 (1847)...
Click to read more »Toxascaris leonina
Minggu, 2026-03-22 00:45:07related host species. T. leonina is an ascarid nematode, a worldwide distributed helminth parasite which is in a division of eukaryotic parasites that,...
Click to read more »Haematozoa
Senin, 2025-05-26 22:29:03infect a host cell depends on the genera of the blood parasite. Plasmodium and Leucozytozoon displace the nucleus of the host cell so that the parasite can...
Click to read more »Zoopagomycotina
Senin, 2024-10-28 22:28:31zygomycetes. Zoopagomycotina are microscopic and are typically obligate parasites of other zygomycete fungi and of microscopic soil animals such as nematodes...
Click to read more »Plasmodium bigueti
Senin, 2024-04-15 23:25:34parasite of the genus Plasmodium. Like all Plasmodium species P. bigueti has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this parasite...
Click to read more »Dirofilaria immitis
Minggu, 2026-04-19 15:09:46distinction is important because the presence of the latter parasite does not pose a health risk to the host. D. immitis usually has stationary body movement, while...
Click to read more »Echinococcosis
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 16:16:55parasite infections, the course of Echinococcus infection is complex. The worm has a life cycle that requires definitive hosts and intermediate hosts...
Click to read more »Phylogenetic reconciliation
Kamis, 2026-04-16 07:39:50S2CID 86307275. Charleston, M. A. (1998). "Jungles: A new solution to the host/Parasite phylogeny reconciliation problem". Mathematical Biosciences. 149 (2):...
Click to read more »Lek paradox
Sabtu, 2025-11-15 03:57:29sexually selected traits signal resistance to parasites. Parasites can significantly stress their hosts so that they are unable to develop sexually selected...
Click to read more »Biomphalaria glabrata
Minggu, 2026-06-07 00:32:39model system for investigating the intimate interactions between host and parasite. There is a great deal of information available about this snail,...
Click to read more »Plasmodium joyeuxi
Senin, 2023-11-06 04:11:08The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are mammals. The parasite was first described by Ledger in 1928. The only known host for this species is the monkey...
Click to read more »Horizontal gene transfer
Senin, 2026-05-18 10:04:56order to complete this process. Davis CC, Wurdack KJ (July 2004). "Host-to-parasite gene transfer in flowering plants: phylogenetic evidence from Malpighiales"...
Click to read more »Superparasitism
Rabu, 2025-05-28 03:52:26occurs when the host has been parasitized by more than one species. Host discrimination, whereby parasitoids can identify a host with parasites from an unparasitized...
Click to read more »Leishmania braziliensis
Minggu, 2025-09-28 17:52:48monocytes, neutrophils) of the mammalian host, with the macrophages being the target white blood cell of the parasite. Recently, it has been hypothesized through...
Click to read more »Cicinnobolus
Selasa, 2025-08-26 02:36:02(1852) Riess, Hedwigia: 23 (1853) Cicinnobolus cesatii, a study in host-parasite relationships. CW Emmons, Bulletin of the Torrey botanical Club, 1930...
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Kamis, 2026-05-14 08:33:40patellifera mantises so the host is attracted to horizontally polarized light. Thus the host goes into water and the parasite's lifecycle completes. Many...
Click to read more »Virginia opossum
Jumat, 2026-05-15 01:41:02still a few cases of rabid opossums every year. Opossums can however host parasites and carry diseases such as tuberculosis, leptospirosis, and tularemia...
Click to read more »Plasmodium tumbayaensis
Senin, 2024-02-05 09:16:31vertebrate hosts for this parasite are birds. The parasite was first described by Mazza and Fiora in 1930. The only known host of this species is the thrush...
Click to read more »African trypanosomiasis
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 04:19:04interactions between the parasite (trypanosome), the vector (tsetse fly), and the host. There are two subspecies of the parasite responsible for starting...
Click to read more »Mermithidae
Jumat, 2026-01-23 09:22:02(Vespa velutina) in France. The parasite was considered to be a member of the local fauna which had adapted to a new host. However, the authors concluded...
Click to read more »Puccinia coronata f. sp. avenae
Kamis, 2026-05-07 06:04:24control both virulence and resistance which suggests a very interactive host-parasite coevolution. A few specific loci have been found to confer resistance...
Click to read more »Chordodes formosanus
Rabu, 2025-10-08 18:06:10the praying mantis as its definitive host. Horsehair worms are obligate parasites that pass through different hosts at various stages. These worms can grow...
Click to read more »Swimmer's itch
Kamis, 2026-05-28 08:26:10coasts, swimmer's itch can occur as well. These parasites use both freshwater snails and vertebrates as hosts in their parasitic life cycles as follows: Once...
Click to read more »HyperParasite
Selasa, 2026-05-26 01:51:01co-op. Players play as an alien parasite who needs to possess humans to survive. Without a human host the alien parasite is weak and easily defeated. The...
Click to read more »Parasite (Grant novel)
Minggu, 2026-06-07 00:36:34Parasite is a science fiction novel written by Mira Grant (a pseudonym of American author Seanan McGuire). It was released on October 29, 2013, by Orbit...
Click to read more »Castilleja integra
Minggu, 2026-02-08 04:42:26flowers decrease. Castailleja integra is considered to be a hemi-parasite, because a host plant is not required for seedlings to sprout and they can photosynthesize...
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Senin, 2025-09-29 06:27:08transmit any malaria parasites.[citation needed] But if a mosquito successfully transfers the parasite to a human body via a bite, the parasite starts developing...
Click to read more »Cyclocotyla bellones
Selasa, 2025-06-24 18:50:12but not in terms of nutrition (it does not feed on a parasite but on a host which is not a parasite)." "Cyclocotyla". Global Biodiversity Information Facility...
Click to read more »Plasmodium audaciosum
Senin, 2024-04-15 23:25:34audaciosum is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium. Like all Plasmodium species P. audaciosum has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this...
Click to read more »Helianthus strumosus
Jumat, 2024-08-30 04:20:19nativeplanttrust.org. Retrieved 2019-12-01. Mason, D. L. (September 1973). "Host-Parasite Relations in the Gibberidea Disease of Helianthus strumosus". Mycologia...
Click to read more »Alternaria brassicicola
Kamis, 2025-11-06 23:32:01was sequenced, efforts shifted to identifying the genes involved in host-parasite interaction. One of the pioneers for genetic research into Alternaria...
Click to read more »Nematopsis
Rabu, 2025-11-19 23:52:43of the family Porosporidae. It is an aquatic parasite of crustaceans with a molluscan intermediate host. Nematopsis has been distinguished from the similar...
Click to read more »Lernaeocera branchialis
Kamis, 2026-03-26 13:50:58stages, one where it parasitizes as a secondary host a flounder or lumpsucker, and another stage where it parasitizes as a primary host a cod or other fishes...
Click to read more »Anna J. Phillips
Minggu, 2025-12-28 00:00:33also looks into host-parasite relationships to figure out how they changed their evolution. She has been focusing her host-parasite interactions research...
Click to read more »Dientamoeba
Minggu, 2026-05-10 11:41:33vermicularis is a possible vector and mode of transmission. When inside the host, the parasite infects the mucosal crypts of the large intestine. They primarily...
Click to read more »Gyrodactylus salaris
Sabtu, 2025-11-22 09:28:37attaching to the host fish, which has sixteen hooks around its edge. The parasite is viviparous, that is, it produces live offspring. The parasites give birth...
Click to read more »Plasmodium neusticuri
Jumat, 2026-02-06 15:43:27neusticuri is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium. Like all Plasmodium species, P. neusticuri has both vertebrate and insect hosts. Its vertebrate hosts are reptiles...
Click to read more »Polychromophilus
Rabu, 2026-03-25 14:04:55Merogony of the parasite, although less well understood, has been observed to occur in a variety of organs and cell types of the primary bat host. Large bodies...
Click to read more »Protelean
Senin, 2024-07-01 23:48:41class of parasites, often referred to as parasitoids. Protelean parasites refer to insects that begin the juvenile phase of their lives as parasites and ultimately...
Click to read more »Gymnoclytia immaculata
Jumat, 2026-03-20 17:41:50Host-Parasite Catalog of North American Tachinidae (Diptera). Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture. p. 860 pp. Taxonomic & Host Catalogue...
Click to read more »Leishmania major
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 16:15:13Leishmania major is a species of parasite found in the genus Leishmania, and is associated with the disease zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (also known...
Click to read more »Horseshoe bat
Jumat, 2026-04-17 05:10:13PMID 27286701. Kotti, B. K. (2018). "Distribution and Specificity of Host-Parasite Associations of Fleas (Siphonaptera) in the Central Caucasus". Entomological...
Click to read more »Capillaria aerophila
Jumat, 2025-11-07 00:21:53(rarely) "thominxosis". This parasite has a direct life cycle, meaning that the life cycle can be completed in a single host. C. aerophila usually causes...
Click to read more »Echinostoma
Minggu, 2026-05-10 02:35:29have been eaten, they excyst in the intestine of the definitive host where the parasite then develops into an adult. Echinostoma are hermaphrodites. A...
Click to read more »Meghan Duffy
Minggu, 2026-03-08 02:01:48worked on the parasites that feed on small freshwater crustaceans (Daphnia), using them as a "model system for understanding host-parasite interactions...
Click to read more »Gnathostomiasis
Jumat, 2026-02-13 06:05:01accidental because humans are not one of the definitive hosts of the parasite and do not allow the parasite to complete its life cycle. Infection in humans follows...
Click to read more »Obligate
Minggu, 2026-03-15 13:44:24for survival or reproduction Obligate parasite, a parasite that cannot reproduce without exploiting a suitable host Obligate photoperiodic plant, a plant...
Click to read more »Vespula infernalis
Selasa, 2025-05-27 07:22:18infernalis is an obligate parasitic wasp, parasitizing the nests of other species in the genus Vespula. Its common host species is V. acadica in North America...
Click to read more »Immune system
Selasa, 2026-04-21 01:47:03responds to a wide variety of pathogens, such as viruses, bacteria, and parasites, as well as cancer cells and foreign objects, such as wood splinters—distinguishing...
Click to read more »Coelioxys
Senin, 2026-03-16 00:33:06referred to as "cuckoo bees". These host-parasite relationships are quite complex. The larvae of Coelioxys species kill the host larvae with their strongly developed...
Click to read more »Taenia solium
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 03:14:23highly dependent on the number, size, and location of the parasites as well as the host's immune and inflammatory response. Adult T. solium is a triploblastic...
Click to read more »Castilleja chromosa
Jumat, 2026-05-15 07:44:27common hosts. In a study of the parasitization of big sagebrush by desert paintbrush, they were found to get about 10% of their sugar energy from host plants...
Click to read more »Disease ecology
Senin, 2026-03-23 12:54:43patterns, and effects of host-pathogen interactions, particularly those of infectious diseases. For example, it examines how parasites spread through and influence...
Click to read more »Pseudolynchia canariensis
Jumat, 2026-03-13 21:42:19definitive host (sexual reproduction takes place in the insect vector) for the protozoan Haemoproteus columbae or pigeon malaria and transmits this parasite to...
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Kamis, 2026-06-04 20:46:06scientific study of parasites and the organisms that host them. There are several pathways through which pathogens can invade a host. The principal pathways...
Click to read more »Kwak Sin-ae
Minggu, 2026-05-17 22:54:08producer of the 2019 film Parasite. She and Bong Joon-ho won the Academy Award for Best Picture at the 92nd Academy Awards for Parasite, which also received...
Click to read more »Trichopoda
Jumat, 2026-03-13 21:48:05Collections. 51. Retrieved 9 June 2023. BugGuide Arnaud Jr, Paul H. (1978). A Host-Parasite Catalog of North American Tachinidae (Diptera). Washington, D.C.: United...
Click to read more »Tunga penetrans
Rabu, 2026-03-04 15:53:03and sub-tropical areas. T. penetrans has become a parasite of concern in sub-Saharan Africa. Host species for T. penetrans' Artiodactyla: Bos taurus...
Click to read more »Allocordyceps
Kamis, 2025-10-16 01:55:35Hosts parasitized by Allocordyceps have separate stromata with separate mycelium emerging from the neck and abdomen. It may have altered its host's behavior...
Click to read more »Chagas disease
Rabu, 2026-05-27 00:38:24trypomastigotes enter the bloodstream and invade various host cells. Inside a host cell, the parasite transforms into a replicative form called an amastigote...
Click to read more »Plasmodium vivax
Rabu, 2026-04-01 12:49:12males do not bite. Like all malaria parasites, P. vivax has a complex life cycle. It infects a definitive insect host, where sexual reproduction occurs...
Click to read more »Heterakis gallinarum
Kamis, 2025-06-26 23:56:17Heterakis gallinarum is a nematode parasite that lives in the cecum of some galliform birds, particularly in ground feeders such as domestic chickens and...
Click to read more »Myxozoa
Selasa, 2026-06-02 00:12:48zoon "animal") is a class of aquatic cnidarian animals – all obligate parasites. It contains the smallest animals ever known to have lived. Over 2,180 species...
Click to read more »Strongylus vulgaris
Jumat, 2026-05-01 21:41:27(large strongyles), commonly known as the blood worm, is a common horse parasite in the phylum Nematoda. It looks like a long worm with a large biting mouth...
Click to read more »Phlebotominae
Senin, 2026-05-18 20:07:00to initiate bleeding from the host. They then suck up the exposed blood. Like practically all blood-feeding parasites, they inject biochemicals that...
Click to read more »The Host (novel)
Senin, 2026-05-18 06:03:15desperate to find a way to remove Souls without killing either the parasite or the host. Doc is prone to alcoholic binges when he fails in these endeavors...
Click to read more »Orobanche aegyptiaca
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 08:08:19Orobanchaceae with a complex lifecycle. This parasite is most common in the Middle East and has a wide host range including many economically important...
Click to read more »Lark sparrow
Selasa, 2026-04-07 21:37:45Landscape & Urban Planning. vol 48, no 1–2. pp. 65–82. Hill RA. (1976). Host Parasite Relationships of the Brown-Headed Cowbird in a Prairie Habitat of West...
Click to read more »Yersinia pestis
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 08:55:42host, the oriental rat flea (Xenopsylla cheopis), but also through aerosols and airborne droplets for its pneumonic form. As a parasite of its host,...
Click to read more »Contracaecum
Senin, 2026-05-25 09:24:37intermediate hosts. It is the only genus in the family Anisakidae which can infect terrestrial, marine and freshwater animals. The adults live as parasites in the...
Click to read more »Plasmodium voltaicum
Senin, 2023-11-06 08:57:34voltaicum is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Vinckeia. As in all Plasmodium species, P. voltaicum has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate...
Click to read more »Chtonobdella limbata
Minggu, 2025-05-25 19:11:25Tatsuo; Kamigaichi, Hiromi; Tomita, Naoki; Yamasaki, Takeshi (2020). "Host–parasite relationships between seabirds and the haemadipsid leech Chtonobdella...
Click to read more »Malaria
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 21:59:30with parasites in the genus Plasmodium, which are transmitted between the human hosts by mosquitoes in the genus Anopheles. The plasmodium parasite has...
Click to read more »Transovarial transmission
Sabtu, 2025-09-20 06:37:34"success of their host's gametes ... as well as the survival of their host's body." In this case, "the interest of the host genes and parasite genes might not...
Click to read more »Allomyces anomalus
Selasa, 2025-09-30 02:18:07Timothy Y. (2017-06-01). "Ultrastructural characterization of the host–parasite interface between Allomyces anomalus (Blastocladiomycota) and Rozella...
Click to read more »Plerocercoid
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 01:32:23in the second intermediate host of many Cestoda with aquatic life cycles. Combes, Claude (2005). The Art of Being a Parasite. University of Chicago Press...
Click to read more »Taenia taeniaeformis
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 03:49:09cyst. Here the parasite will wait for up to two months for the rodent to be eaten by a suitable definitive host. The definitive host must ingest the...
Click to read more »Leucocytozoon grallariae
Rabu, 2026-03-25 14:04:49Leucocytozoon. In this parasite, gametocytes develop in circular shaped host cells which exhibits two highly distant parasite lineages isolated from the...
Click to read more »Diamphidia
Rabu, 2025-10-22 08:29:42enclosing both host and parasite, and then feeding on its host's soft tissue. The Lebistina larvae are more toxic than their hosts and are preferred...
Click to read more »Acacia acuminata
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 18:42:19parrots (Polytelis anthopeplus). The species is a host to mistletoe species of genus Amyema, the host-parasite relationship having been researched near Geraldton...
Click to read more »Zygomycota
Rabu, 2025-11-12 05:07:07used in the mediation of the recognition between parasite and host. An example is the host-parasite interaction of a parasexual nature observed between...
Click to read more »Anelasma
Senin, 2026-03-16 16:34:47Anelasma is a monotypic genus of goose barnacles that live as parasites on various shark hosts. The genus Anelasma contains a single species, Anelasma squalicola...
Click to read more »Supernormal stimulus
Kamis, 2025-10-02 21:28:38exaggeration of pre-existing signs induced by social parasites, noting the manipulation of baby birds (hosts) from these, to illustrate the effectiveness of...
Click to read more »Cryptocaryon
Rabu, 2026-02-11 05:01:5272 days. Lastly, the parasite enters the Theront stage, where it once again becomes free-swimming. Here, it searches for a new host to attach to and begins...
Click to read more »Colpocephalum californici
Jumat, 2026-04-10 02:31:29Kerness; Parker, Patricia G. (2005). "Using parasites to infer host population history: a new rationale for parasite conservation". Animal Conservation. 8 (2):...
Click to read more »Redband darter
Kamis, 2026-05-21 10:24:40Kara Million (2014). ANALYSIS OF HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS BETWEEN DARTERS (ETHEOSTOMA) AND MONOGENOIDEAN GILL PARASITES (AETHYCTERON) IN FLAT CREEK AND...
Click to read more »Leishmania
Selasa, 2026-03-03 16:36:09primary hosts are vertebrates. They commonly infect hyraxes, canids, rodents, and humans. Members of an ancient genus of Leishmania-like parasites, Paleoleishmania...
Click to read more »Anguillicoloides crassus
Kamis, 2025-02-06 22:45:52host. The host is eaten by an eel, and the nematode finds its way from the eel's digestive tract to its swimbladder. An eel with an advanced parasite...
Click to read more »Streblidae
Senin, 2026-05-18 04:01:39some phyllostomid bats in southeastern Brazil: parasitism rates and host-parasite relationships". Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. 94 (2): 151–156...
Click to read more »Maullinia
Jumat, 2026-05-29 03:36:11South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. These parasites infiltrate the cells of their brown algal hosts via cytoplasmic extensions called plasmodia that...
Click to read more »Nosema bombi
Sabtu, 2025-10-04 03:13:37the host, infecting host cells in the gut lumen and the Malpighian tubules. During reproduction and proliferation the parasite spreads within the host. Fresh...
Click to read more »African crake
Kamis, 2026-05-21 09:42:14large birds of prey; snakes; or mammals, including humans, and can host parasites. Although it may be displaced temporarily by the burning of grassland...
Click to read more »Ampelomyces quisqualis
Minggu, 2025-10-12 20:38:10Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 7: 431 (1870) Cicinnobolus Cesatii, a Study in Host-Parasite Relationships. Chester W. Emmons, Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club...
Click to read more »Common cuckoo
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:10:03summer migrant to Europe and Asia, and winters in Africa. It is a brood parasite, which means it lays eggs in the nests of other bird species, particularly...
Click to read more »Necator americanus
Senin, 2026-04-13 22:44:35the openings in the soil, allow the parasites to burrow to the surface and attach to the skin of their next host. High transmission rates seem to be congruent...
Click to read more »Moniliformis moniliformis
Jumat, 2022-08-19 20:38:22eggs of this parasite are 90–125 μm long and 65 μm wide. They are oval in shape with a thick, clear outer coat. Usually, the definitive hosts for M. moniliformis...
Click to read more »Anoplocephala perfoliata
Jumat, 2026-03-20 20:53:58and is one of the three tapeworm species that can infect horses. This parasite is the most common intestinal tapeworm of horses in the world and is one...
Click to read more »Asterionella
Minggu, 2025-11-02 09:59:30a Diatom Chytrid Parasite in the Lower Columbia River". Northwest Science. 88 (3): 234–245. doi:10.3955/046.088.0306. Host parasite interactions between...
Click to read more »Argulus foliaceus
Kamis, 2026-03-26 13:49:43horse mackerel (Trachurus trachurus). While it is a generalist parasite not specific to a host taxon, it does display preferences, apparently preferring larger...
Click to read more »Accacoelium contortum
Selasa, 2025-09-09 00:30:192% of 106 sunfish examined were found to host Accacoelium contortum. Most trematodes are internal parasites (endoparasites), but Accacoelium contortum...
Click to read more »Fascioloides magna
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 18:18:28trematode parasite that occurs in wild and domestic ruminants in North America and Europe. Adult flukes occur in the liver of the definitive host and feed...
Click to read more »Radopholus similis
Minggu, 2025-05-25 22:39:11R. similis is an obligate parasite, and therefore must have hosts to survive. Due to the inability to live without a host, they are found in environments...
Click to read more »Haplorchis pumilio
Senin, 2026-01-26 10:42:10characterized by a unique sterile soldier cast that works to defend the host from other parasites. Haplorchis pumilio was originally found in Africa and southern...
Click to read more »Myxosporea
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 19:18:53whom are parasites. They belong to the Myxozoa clade within Cnidaria. They have a complex life cycle that comprises vegetative forms in two hosts—one an...
Click to read more »Cystacanth
Senin, 2026-05-25 10:18:33intermediate-host behavior can affect the probability that the parasite reaches its definitive host. Experimental work on Pomphorhynchus laevis found that host behavioral...
Click to read more »Crithidia
Minggu, 2025-10-19 15:46:20trypanosomatid Euglenozoa. They are parasites that exclusively parasitise arthropods, mainly insects. They pass from host to host as cysts in infective faeces...
Click to read more »Acemya oestriformis
Jumat, 2026-03-13 18:26:26Dipterists Society. Retrieved 4 March 2024. Arnaud, P.H. Jr. (1978). "A host-parasite catalog of North American Tachinidae (Diptera)" (PDF). United States...
Click to read more »Parasitoid wasp
Kamis, 2026-03-26 13:58:37included, it infects the nuclei of host haemocytes and other cells, causing symptoms that benefit the parasite. Host size is important for the development...
Click to read more »Plasmodium acuminatum
Senin, 2024-04-15 23:25:34little is known about the life cycle and prevalence of the parasite, and its insect host has not been identified. Plasmodium acuminatum was described...
Click to read more »Cuscuta epithymum
Kamis, 2026-05-21 10:41:03to draw both water and nutrients from the host. The stems of the parasite are tightly coiled around the host while other stems remain loosely coiled, allowing...
Click to read more »List of parasites of the marsh rice rat
Jumat, 2026-01-30 22:48:19it eats a variety of animals which may serve as intermediate hosts of various parasites. The endoparasites in the saltwater marsh were dominated by trematodes...
Click to read more »Dusky shark
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 23:18:36(Tetraphyllidea: Onchobothriidae), with a phylogenetic analysis and comments on host-parasite associations". Systematic Parasitology. 56 (2): 85–139. doi:10.1023/A:1026135528505...
Click to read more »Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis
Selasa, 2025-05-27 09:31:45primarily by the parasite Sarcocystis neurona. To complete its lifecycle, S. neurona requires two hosts: a definitive host, and an intermediate host. The definitive...
Click to read more »Monogenea
Rabu, 2026-05-20 07:58:12transmission from host to host. No known monogeneans infect birds, but one (Oculotrema hippopotami) infects mammals, parasitizing the eye of the hippopotamus...
Click to read more »Proformica
Senin, 2025-06-02 12:47:20Proformica striaticeps (Forel, 1911) Rossomyrmex, genus of ant that parasitizes Proformica species Bolton, B. (2014). "Proformica". AntCat. Retrieved...
Click to read more »Eichler's rule
Kamis, 2025-07-17 13:33:41of several coevolutionary rules which states that parasites tend to be highly specific to their hosts, and thus it seems reasonable to expect a positive...
Click to read more »Haemonchus contortus
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 16:15:57common parasite and one of the most pathogenic nematodes of ruminants. Adult worms attach to abomasal mucosa and feed on the blood. This parasite is responsible...
Click to read more »Eimeria falciformis
Kamis, 2025-07-17 13:34:29intracellular parasite that primarily infects the mouse species Mus musculus. As part of the Apicomplexa phylum, it has a complex life cycle within its host, causing...
Click to read more »Caligus infestans
Senin, 2025-06-30 04:20:40Heller in 1865. In Australia it is found as an ecto-parasite (a parasite living on the outside of its host) of fishes at depths of 200 metres in the following...
Click to read more »Infestation
Minggu, 2026-04-19 03:54:52being invaded or overrun by pests or parasites. It can also refer to the actual organisms living on or within a host. In general, the term "infestation"...
Click to read more »Plasmodium landauae
Senin, 2023-11-06 04:10:04landauae is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Vinckeia. As in all Plasmodium species, P. landauae has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate...
Click to read more »Parascaris equorum
Minggu, 2024-12-01 14:40:45Amongst horse owners, the parasites are colloquially called "Ascarids". This is a host-specific helminth intestinal parasite that can infect horses, donkeys...
Click to read more »Asian koel
Senin, 2026-06-01 05:54:39many of its related cuckoo kin, is a brood parasite that lays its eggs in the nests of crows and other hosts, who raise its young. They are unusual among...
Click to read more »Plasmodium coulangesi
Senin, 2024-04-15 23:25:34The vertebrate hosts for this parasite are mammals. The parasite was first described by Lepers et al. in 1989. The only known host for this species...
Click to read more »Iodamoeba buetschlii
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 22:42:02the original host, pigs are often targeted with I. buetschlii. I. buetschlii is identified as a non-pathogenic parasite. Often, this parasite is mistaken...
Click to read more »List of parasites of humans
Selasa, 2026-05-26 03:06:25the world human population. Clinically, the life-long presence of the parasite in tissues of a majority of infected individuals is usually considered...
Click to read more »Plasmodium jiangi
Sabtu, 2023-10-07 09:08:55jiangi is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Novyella. As in all Plasmodium species, P. jiangi has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate...
Click to read more »Gregarina garnhami
Minggu, 2026-03-22 02:06:45organism belonging to the Apicomplexa described in 1956 by Canning as a parasite found in several locusts, such as the desert locust, African migratory...
Click to read more »Nycteribiidae
Selasa, 2026-05-19 07:41:55males and females take blood meals, thus qualifying as parasites. Most species are highly host-specific. The family is primarily found in the Old World...
Click to read more »Plasmodium lainsoni
Kamis, 2024-01-04 05:59:24lainsoni is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium. Like all Plasmodium species P. lainsoni has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate hosts for this...
Click to read more »Amblyosporidae
Kamis, 2026-05-21 23:01:46parasites known for infecting insects, particularly mosquitoes, and crustaceans such as copepods, with complex life cycles involving multiple hosts and...
Click to read more »Plasmodium percygarnhami
Senin, 2023-11-06 04:12:16percygarnhami is a parasite of the genus Plasmodium subgenus Vinckeia. As in all Plasmodium species, P. percygarnhami has both vertebrate and insect hosts. The vertebrate...
Click to read more »Ichthyodinium
Minggu, 2026-05-24 17:27:09described species of the genus. Ichthyodinium chabelardi is a generalist parasite with a very broad geographic range. It has been found in locations such...
Click to read more »Ixodes hexagonus
Sabtu, 2025-05-24 05:18:19nest-dwelling parasite of the European hedgehog, its distribution is closely associated with that of its preferred host. Hedgehogs are not its only host, however;...
Click to read more »Kuhl's maskray
Selasa, 2026-05-19 03:56:13Archived from the original on May 11, 2012. Retrieved December 31, 2011. "Host-parasite Database". Natural History Museum. November 13, 2011. Archived from...
Click to read more »Taenia saginata
Senin, 2026-05-18 07:27:15intestinal parasite in humans causing taeniasis (a type of helminthiasis) and cysticercosis in cattle. Cattle are the intermediate hosts, where larval...
Click to read more »Krusty Gets Kancelled
Selasa, 2026-04-07 20:40:28first guest stars to agree to their parts. The short cartoon "Worker and Parasite" is a reference to Soviet cartoons, and Soviet propaganda venerating the...
Click to read more »Small tree finch
Kamis, 2026-05-21 10:03:27infestation influences virulence and parasite success in a dynamic multi-host–parasite interaction between the invasive parasite, Philornis downsi, and Darwin's...
Click to read more »Trichomonas tenax
Sabtu, 2026-04-04 03:37:00generally not sufficient to eliminate the parasite, hence its Latin name, meaning "tenacious". The parasite is frequently encountered in periodontal infections...
Click to read more »Thomas S. Ray
Kamis, 2026-04-09 07:02:18investigation of processes such as the dynamics of punctuated equilibrium, host-parasite co-evolution, and density-dependent natural selection. Unlike more conventional...
Click to read more »Bacteriophage experimental evolution
Minggu, 2026-04-26 05:10:58the negative impact that a pathogen (or parasite) has on the Darwinian fitness of a harboring organism (host). For phage, virulence results either in...
Click to read more »Babesia bovis
Sabtu, 2025-07-19 13:09:27Babesia bovis is an Apicomplexan single-celled parasite of cattle which occasionally infects humans. The disease it and other members of the genus Babesia...
Click to read more »Odilia (nematode)
Minggu, 2024-02-18 02:23:05Heligmonellidae) parasites of Muridae from the Australasian region. The genus Odilia Durette-Desset, 1973". Parasite. 22: 32. doi:10.1051/parasite/2015032. ISSN 1776-1042...
Click to read more »Onchocerca
Rabu, 2026-04-22 22:31:37Onchocerca is a genus of parasitic roundworm. It contains one human parasite – Onchocerca volvulus – which is responsible for the neglected disease Onchocerciasis...
Click to read more »Leucochloridium variae
Rabu, 2026-03-04 16:52:06within the bird host, the infection of the snail host is visible when its eye stalks become grotesquely engorged with the parasite's brood sacs. These...
Click to read more »Emerald cockroach wasp
Kamis, 2026-05-21 08:41:18cockroach into a dug burrow and using it as a host for its larvae. It thus belongs to the entomophagous parasites. The wasp is mostly found in the tropical...
Click to read more »Drosophila falleni
Jumat, 2026-04-10 08:32:48Washington. 105 (4): 847–58. Jaenike J, Anderson TJC. (1992). "Dynamics of host-parasite interactions: the Drosophila–Howardula system". OIKOS. 674 (3): 533–40...
Click to read more »Bombus bohemicus
Jumat, 2026-04-17 22:25:25bohemicus is a generalist parasite, successfully invading several species from genus Bombus. The invading queen mimics the host nest's chemical signals...
Click to read more »Canterbury gecko
Jumat, 2026-01-02 00:10:39acknowledged that host-switching to closely related host species would have played an important role. It was also noted that "not all host–parasite associations...
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Kamis, 2025-10-02 19:12:33is a genus of protozoan parasites that belong to the phylum Apicomplexa. It is composed of vector-borne haemosporidian parasites that infect a wide range...
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Selasa, 2026-02-24 04:41:42misleading, since connected and switched on, the system worked on a "host-parasite" model, with the processor in the external unit taking control while...
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