Sentence examples for parasitism from inspiring English sources

These various degrees of parasitism suggest that the host-parasite relationship is subject to continuing evolutionary change.

(Social parasitism is a condition where a parasitizing ant species depends upon the labour provided by a host ant species within the context of a mixed-species colony).

All parasitic plant species are angiosperms, among which parasitism has evolved independently about 12 times.

The condition of obligate parasitism is associated with a degree of specificity of the parasite with regard to the host; i.e., the parasite generally is more closely adapted to one species of host than to all others.

However, ecological studies of parasitism indicate that it is incorrect to assume that all host-parasite relationships will evolve toward reduced antagonism and that a resultant disease state eventually will be ameliorated.

Past observations have hinted that cockroach faeces protect against such parasitism.

(In less extreme cases, the process of repair often copies the endonuclease gene into the repair site; hence the name "homing", and also the suspicion of parasitism).

As she noted ruefully in her book "Fleas, Flukes and Cuckoos", a popular study of parasitism, "Birds' fleas and feather lice do not sing.

More recently researchers have discovered that hawk-like markings are more prevalent in cuckoo species that engage in nest parasitism than in cuckoo species that do not.

Many biologists think that sex, for example, is a response to parasitism.

That's why we don't much see putatively limited-government tea partiers decrying the relationship of symbiotic parasitism between arms makers and the war-making state.