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Taxonomic range
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Evolutionary ecology
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Evolutionary strategies
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Overview
- Close relationship Symbiosis
- Species
- On Ectoparasitic infestation
- Host Host (biology)
- Adapted Adaptation
- Protozoa
- Malarial Malaria
- Sleeping sickness
- Amoebic dysentery
- Hookworms Hookworm
- Lice
- Mosquitoes Mosquito
- Vampire bats Vampire bat
- Fungi
- Honey fungus Armillaria mellea
- Ringworm
- Mistletoe
- Dodder
- Broomrapes Orobanchaceae
- Strategies Behavioral ecology
- Parasitic castration
- Vector-transmitted Disease vector
- Parasitoids Parasitoid
- Predation
- Consumer–resource interaction Consumer–resource interactions
- Specialised Generalist and specialist species
- Reproduce Reproduction
- Vertebrate
- Tapeworms
- Trematode Trematoda
Etymology
- Medieval French Old French
- Latinised Latinisation (literature)
- Ancient Greek Ancient Greek language
Evolutionary strategies
- Saprotrophs Saprotroph
- Disease Parasitic disease
- E. O. Wilson
- Taxonomists Taxonomist
- Obligate parasite
- Facultative parasite
- Mathematical model
- Snubnosed eel
- Plant-eating Phytophagous
- Scale insects Scale insect
- Aphids Aphid
- Plant diseases Plant pathology
- Carbon dioxide
- Parasitic plants Parasitic plant
- Vector Vector (epidemiology)
- Converged Convergent evolution
- Fecal–oral route
Taxonomic range
- Cestodes Cestoidea
- Phyla Phylum
- Classes Class (biology)
- Hemiparasite
- Cuscuta
- Angiosperms
- Biome
- Haustoria Haustorium
- Xylem
- Phloem
- Chlorophyll
- Photosynthesis
- Chemicals Chemical substance
- Shoots Shoot (botany)
- Roots Root
- Families Family (taxonomy)
- Flowering plants Flowering plant
- Striga
- Corn Zea mays
- Rice Oryza sativa
- Sorghum
- Orobanche
- Peas
- Chickpeas Cicer arietinum
- Tomatoes Solanum lycopersicum
- Carrots Carrot
- Cabbage
- Plants
- Mycorrhizal
- Myco-heterotrophic Myco-heterotrophy
Evolutionary ecology
- Food webs Food web
- Fossil record
- Mandibles Mandible
- Tyrannosaurus
- Trichomonas
- Saurophthirus
- Pterosaurs Pterosauria
- Cysts Cyst
- Coprolite
- Phytosaur
- Host–parasite coevolution
- Evolutionary epidemiology
- Darwinian medicine
- Cancer
- Autoimmune conditions Autoimmune disease
- California coastal salt marsh
- Euhaplorchis californiensis
- Killifish
- Egrets Egret
- Toxoplasma gondii
- Cats Felis silvestris catus
- Mammals Mammalia
- Rats Rattus rattus
- Cyclosa argenteoalba
- Bedbugs Cimex
- Batbugs Polyctenidae
- Ability to fly Insect flight
- Myxosporean Myxosporea
- Henneguya zschokkei
- Mitochondria
Biology and conservation
- Parasitologists Parasitologist
- Ecologists Ecologist
- Evolutionary biologists
- Green crabs Carcinus maenas
- Atlantic Rock Cancer irroratus
- Jonah crabs Jonah crab
- Campaign for eradicating the Guinea worm Eradication of dracunculiasis
- Colpocephalum californici
- California condor
- Keystone species
- Competing species Competition (biology)
- Parametric statistics
- Log-transformation Data transformation (statistics)
- Non-parametric statistics
History
- Human parasites Human parasite
- Guinea worm
- Threadworms Pinworm (parasite)
- Ebers Papyrus
- Bladder worm
- Hippocratic Corpus
- Aristophanes
- Galen
- Large roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides
- Enterobius vermicularis
- Canon of Medicine The Canon of Medicine
- Avicenna
- Jehan de Brie Jehan de Brie?action=edit&redlink=1
- Fr Jean de Brie
- Sheep liver fluke Fasciola hepatica
- Early modern period
- Ticks
- Nasal flies of deer Cephenemyiinae
- Spontaneous generation
- Ascariasis
- Echinococcus granulosus
- Peter Simon Pallas
- Giovanni Cosimo Bonomo
- Diacinto Cestoni
- Scabies
- Sarcoptes scabiei
- Entamoeba histolytica
- James Paget
- Trichinella spiralis
- Clonorchis sinensis
Cultural significance
- Classical era
- Accepted role in Roman society Patronage in ancient Rome
- A derogatory sense Parasitism (social offense)
- Satirical
- Ad infinitum
- Its many film adaptations Dracula in popular culture
- Count Dracula
- Laura Otis
- Parasitic alien species Parasites in fiction
- Xenomorph Alien (creature in Alien franchise)
- Explosive squibs Bullet hit squib
- Animal organs Organ (anatomy)
- Entomopathogenic fungus
- Cordyceps
- The Last of Us
- Television adaptation The Last of Us (TV series)
- Zombie apocalypse
Sources
- Poulin, Robert Robert Poulin (zoologist)
- Princeton University Press
- ISBN ISBN (identifier)
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Nodes447
Edges446
Triples169
Avg. degree2
Density0.004474
Components1
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Parasitism
Top relations
related to External links · 23
Parasitism → Centers, Disease Control, Division, Genera, Infectious Disease Practitioners, May, Medical, Mites, October, Oxford University Press, Parasitic Diseases Archived, Parasitic Insects, Parasitology, Parasitology Research Archived, Powerful Tool, PreventionKSU, Resources, Ticks, Veterinary Importance, Wayback Machine
related to Basic concepts · 13
Parasitism → An, Because, Macroparasites, Mesoparasites, Parasite, Predation, Some, Taxonomists, The, These, Unlike, Wilson, Within
related to Animals · 9
Parasitism → By, Ecto-parasitism, Endo, Hymenoptera, Invertebrate, Many, Numbers, The, Vertebrate
related to Ecology and parasitology · 9
Parasitism → Even, Further, In, Poulin, Robert Poulin, The, Their, There, This
related to Fossil record · 8
Parasitism → Early Cretaceous, Eggs, Late Triassic, Saurophthirus, Thailand, This, Trichomonas-like, Tyrannosaurus
related to Etymology · 6
Parasitism → English, First, Greekπαράσιτος, Latinised, Medieval French, The
related to Society · 6
Parasitism → According, John Playfair, Jonathan Swift, On Poetry, Rhapsody, The
related to Evolutionary ecology · 5
Parasitism → Humans, On, Perhaps, Some, Vertebrates
related to Major strategies · 3
Parasitism → From, There, These
is a · 2
Parasitism → close relationship between species, type of consumer
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Important terminology
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Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parasitism | is a | close relationship between species | 0.90 | text |
| Parasitism | is a | type of consumer | 0.90 | text |
| the agents of malaria | instance of | Parasites include single-celled protozoans | 0.80 | text |
| sleeping sickness | instance of | Parasites include single-celled protozoans | 0.80 | text |
| and amoebic dysentery | instance of | Parasites include single-celled protozoans | 0.80 | text |
| roundworms | instance of | shading into being saprophytic.Human knowledge of parasites | 0.80 | text |
| tapeworms dates back to ancient Egypt | instance of | shading into being saprophytic.Human knowledge of parasites | 0.80 | text |
| Greece | instance of | shading into being saprophytic.Human knowledge of parasites | 0.80 | text |
| and Rome | instance of | shading into being saprophytic.Human knowledge of parasites | 0.80 | text |
| scale insects | instance of | Plant-eating insects | 0.80 | text |
| aphids | instance of | Plant-eating insects | 0.80 | text |
| and caterpillars closely resemble ectoparasites | instance of | Plant-eating insects | 0.80 | text |
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