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    opportunistically use phoresis to hitch a ride on a fly, and attempt to find a new host. The largest mammalian example of phoresis is human beings directly...
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  • The suffix -phoresis means "migration": Phoresis, where one organism attaches itself to another for travel. Diffusiophoresis, motion observed in liquid...
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    they typically use phoresis, which is hitching a ride from a fly, as an attempt to reach a new host. Mallophaga may also use the phoresis to spread to a new...
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  • (2022) Light Up the Clouds (2021) Night Running (2023) Solidity (2022) Phoresis and Other Journeys (2023), ISBN 978-1-922240-50-7 The Four Thousand, The...
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    mistake them for ticks or small spiders. Pseudoscorpions often carry out phoresis, a form of commensalism in which one organism uses another for the purpose...
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  • myrmecophilic and has been found using Solenopsis invicta in a relationship of phoresis. "Cyphoderus similis Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System....
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    seems to occur via phoresis or the "hitchhiking" of one species on another. Harbison found that body lice are less adept at phoresis and excel competitively...
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    removed from their host. If their host dies, lice can opportunistically use phoresis to hitch a ride on a fly and attempt to find a new host. Sucking lice range...
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    (spiders), rolling (some beetles and spiders) or riding other animals (phoresis). Animals move for a variety of reasons, such as to find food, a mate,...
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    transport by aquatic species of the mite family Ascidae. This is known as phoresis. Some members of the tipulid genus Tipula, such as the European crane fly...
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    feature for this species. The beetle is known to engage in mutualistic phoresis with mites of the genus Poecilochirus. Upon arrival at a carcass, these...
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    Remora remora (common Remoras) will latch onto leatherbacks and display phoresis behavior or 'hitchhiking' this represents commensalism, where one species...
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  • species of mite in the family Macrochelidae. It has been found engaging in phoresis with certain species of Omorgus beetles, including Omorgus monachus and...
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    suckers that enable them to adhere to smooth surfaces, gaining a free ride (phoresis), and they spend most of their lives clinging to a host animal such as...
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    leaves the pool, except when eggs are accidentally transported by animal phoresis, wind, or rarely, by flood. Such animal populations may be very old indeed...
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  • φόρος (phóros) adiaphora, adiaphorism, anaphor, metaphor, pheromone, phoresis, phoresy, phosphor, prosphora, pyrophoric pheug-, phyg- (ΦΥΓ) flee Greek...
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    without harming or benefiting it. Includes facilitation, epibiosis, and phoresis. Indirect comensalism is when an organism benefits from the resource or...
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  • φόρος (phóros) adiaphora, adiaphorism, anaphor, metaphor, pheromone, phoresis, phoresy, phosphor, prosphora, pyrophoric pheug-, phyg- (ΦΥΓ) flee Greek...
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    in S. cerevisiae; its size was estimated from pulsed-field gel electro- phoresis studies to be 300–360 kb This chromosome has been the subject of intensive...
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  • (possibly) adult stages, and also attaches to adult flies for dispersal (phoresis). Its hosts include houseflies (Musca domestica), drosophilid flies (Drosophila...
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    The flies are hosts for the mites in a symbiotic association known as phoresis, whereby the mites are mechanically carried by its host. Mites are small...
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    chemotaxis are still debated. Possible mechanisms include solutal buoyancy, phoresis or conformational changes leading to change in effective diffusivity and...
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    host, though they are not technically parasitic and instead engage in phoresis. X. globicipitis takes advantage of the migratory movements of marine mammals...
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  • stage specialized for dispersal) attach to them to reach new food sources (phoresis). Dermestes beetles are kept by museums for cleaning vertebrate skeletons...
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  • (EMB) is a force that opposes the Lorentz force during electromagnetic phoresis of small particles or droplets in an aqueous medium. It is analogous to...
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    to fresh dung deposits; this is known as phoresis. Adult females tend to be the ones that engage in phoresis, though males and nymphs can do it as well...
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    assemblage of moths and beetles which utilize the sloth principally for phoresis and whose larval stages feed and develop in the dung of the host sloth...
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    organic materials. To disperse, Glycyphagus use insects such as bees (phoresis) or air currents. These species belong to the genus Glycyphagus: Glycyphagus...
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    this phenomenon ITP has obtained its name: iso = equal, tachos = speed, phoresis = migration. Isotachophoresis is exactly equal to the steady-state-stacking...
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    deutonymph stage is to attach to insects and be carried to other bulbs (phoresis). Deutonymphs are resistant to starvation and desiccation during adverse...
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