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    directly transmitted parasitism (by contact), trophically-transmitted parasitism (by being eaten), vector-transmitted parasitism, parasitoidism, and micropredation...
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    Brood parasitism is a subclass of parasitism and phenomenon and behavioural pattern of certain animals, brood parasites, that rely on others to raise their...
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  • Social parasitism or social parasite may refer to the following: Parasitism (social offense), a label for those deemed to contribute insufficiently to...
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  • Social parasitism was considered a political crime in the Soviet Union, where individuals accused of living off the efforts of others or society were prosecuted...
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    have become well known in their own right. In evolutionary biology, parasitism is a relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives...
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  • competition and parasitism. Classically the transmission mode of the symbiont can also be important in predicting where on the mutualism-parasitism-continuum...
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    fertilization assurance (reproductive assurance) at each generation. Sexual parasitism is a mode of sexual reproduction, unique to anglerfish, in which the males...
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  • except when the death of the host is necessary for transmission. Obligate parasitism is exhibited in a range of organisms, with examples in viruses, bacteria...
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    biological interactions (in other words, to mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism, but excluding brief interactions such as predation). In the 21st century...
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    is much larger than the other, it is generally known as the host. In parasitism, the parasite benefits at the host's expense. In commensalism, the two...
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    A cuckoo's egg is a metaphor for brood parasitism, where a parasitic bird deposits its egg into a host's nest, which then incubates and feeds the chick...
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  • Gynogenesis (redirect from Sperm parasitism)
    using only maternal genetic material. Gynogenesis is often termed "sperm parasitism" in reference to the somewhat pointless role of male gametes. Gynogenetic...
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    production of offspring. A second example of parasitism is brood parasitism. Cuckoos regularly do this type of parasitism. Cuckoos lay their eggs in the nest of...
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    S2CID 207051421. Stevens, Alison N. P. (2010). "Predation, Herbivory, and Parasitism". Nature Education Knowledge. 3 (10): 36. Archived from the original on...
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    nonobligate brood parasitism, laying their eggs in the nests of members of their own species, in addition to raising their own young. Brood parasitism has even...
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    Barnacle (section Parasitism)
    Barnacles are arthropods of the subclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea. They are related to crabs and lobsters, with similar nauplius larvae. Barnacles...
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    Insect (section Parasitism)
    slowly or are immobile, and so all stages are exposed to predation and parasitism. Insects accordingly employ multiple defensive strategies, including camouflage...
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    parasitized by cowbirds. These naive hosts likely do not have defenses against parasitism, and may be more negatively affected by the presence of the cowbirds....
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    Kleptoparasitism (originally spelt clepto-parasitism, meaning "parasitism by theft") is a form of feeding in which one animal deliberately takes food...
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    prind ziua când ne vor bate iar"". Telekomsport.ro. 6 October 2014. "Ne-a părăsit Ştefan Sameş, fostul mare fundaş al Stelei". jurnalul.antena3.ro. "L'Equipe:...
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  • Stoll's use of the term extended the metaphor Cuckoo's egg from brood parasitism in birds to malware. Author Clifford Stoll, an astronomer by training...
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    unfavorable associations, for example predation, frugivory and herbivory, parasitism, and mutualism. Without mutualistic relationships, some plants may not...
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    evolutionary rise of parasitism. The remaining groups contain only hemiparasites or holoparasites. The evolutionary event which gave rise to parasitism in plants...
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    Laetiporus sulphureus is a species of bracket fungus (fungi that grow on trees) found in Europe and North America. Its common names are crab-of-the-woods...
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    cause any harm, so are considered an example of commensalism rather than parasitism; but they can cause disease, known as demodicosis. Due to being adapted...
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    The saddleback caterpillar (Acharia stimuli, formerly Sibine stimulea) is the larva of a species of moth native to eastern North America. It is also found...
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  • related, non-parasitic species. Parasitism is common, and it is even more common in nematodes, which have evolved into parasitism on up to eighteen separate...
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    Adalia bipunctata, the two-spot ladybird, two-spotted ladybug or two-spotted lady beetle, is a carnivorous beetle of the family Coccinellidae that is found...
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    Phoresis or phoresy is a non-permanent, commensalistic interaction in which one organism (a phoront or phoretic) attaches itself to another (the host)...
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    Beetle (section Parasitism)
    the subsocial intertidal beetle, Bledius spectabilis, in relation to parasitism by the ichneumonid wasp, Barycnemis blediator". Behaviour. 110 (1–4):...
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