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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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