directly transmitted parasitism (by contact), trophically-transmitted parasitism (by being eaten), vector-transmitted parasitism, parasitoidism, and micropredation...

Brood parasitism is a subclass of parasitism and phenomenon and behavioural pattern of animals that rely on others to raise their young. The strategy appears...

Social parasitism or social parasite may refer to the following: Parasitism (social offense), a label for those deemed to contribute insufficiently to...

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...

Reputation parasitism, reputation leeching or credibility leeching is a legal term regarding marketing. It refers to when one advertiser uses another brand's...

Parasitism". The American Naturalist. 158 (6): 599–614. doi:10.1086/324113. ISSN 0003-0147. PMID 18707354. Andersson, Malte (1984), "Brood Parasitism...

have become well known in their own right. In evolutionary biology, parasitism is a relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives...

fertilization assurance (reproductive assurance) at each generation. Sexual parasitism is a mode of sexual reproduction, unique to anglerfish, in which the males...

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...

using only maternal genetic material. Gynogenesis is often termed "sperm parasitism" in reference to the somewhat pointless role of male gametes. Gynogenetic...

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...

competition and parasitism. Classically the transmission mode of the symbiont can also be important in predicting where on the mutualism-parasitism-continuum...

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...

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...

slowly or are immobile, and so all stages are exposed to predation and parasitism. Insects accordingly employ multiple defensive strategies, including camouflage...

Barnacles are arthropods of the subclass Cirripedia in the subphylum Crustacea. They are related to crabs and lobsters, with similar nauplius larvae. Barnacles...

S2CID 207051421. Stevens, Alison N. P. (2010). "Predation, Herbivory, and Parasitism". Nature Education Knowledge. 3 (10): 36. Archived from the original on...

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...

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:...

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...

parasitizing each other are called multi- or multiple parasitism. In many cases, multiple parasitism still leads to the death of one or more of the parasitoids...

evolutionary rise of parasitism. The remaining groups contain only hemiparasites or holoparasites. The evolutionary event which gave rise to parasitism in plants...

biological interactions (in other words, to mutualism, commensalism, and parasitism, but excluding brief interactions such as predation). In the 21st century...

raise it on its own. This behavior is an example of brood parasitism and obligate parasitism. It hosts Polyrhachis lamellidens as a parasite too. "ITIS...

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...

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...

Orobanche, commonly known as broomrape, is a genus of almost 200 species of small parasitic herbaceous plants, mostly native to the temperate Northern...

of parasitism in plants". Trends Plant Sci 15:227-235 R Vidal-Russell and DL Nickrent (2008) "The first mistletoes: origins of aerial parasitism in Santalales"...

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....

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...