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1.4 Fungi. 1.5 Arthropods. 2 ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is an incomplete list of organisms that are true parasites upon other ...
Main article: Human parasite Endoparasites Protozoan organisms Common name of organism or disease Latin name (sorted) Body parts affected Diagnostic specimen Prevalence Source/Transmission (Reservoir/Vector) Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis and Acanthamoeba keratitis (eye infection) Acanthamoeba spp. eye, brain, skin culture worldwide contact lenses cleaned with contaminated tap water ...
Interspecific brood parasitism evolved twice independently in the order Passeriformes, in the cowbirds (genus Molothrus) and in the family Viduidae. [1] Instead of making nests of their own, and feeding their young, brood parasites deposit their eggs in the nests of other birds. [2] The vampire ground finch is a parasite, but is not brood ...
There is a large variation in the number of eggs produced by different species of worm at one time; it varies in the range of 3,000 to 700,000. The frequency of egg deposition from an adult helminth is generally daily, and can occur up to six times per day for some Taenia species. Adult trematodes lay smaller numbers of eggs compared to ...
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Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... Animal parasites of ... 126 P) Pages in category "Parasitic animals" The following 2 pages are in this ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Parasitic animals of mammals (3 C, 27 P) B. Parasites of bats (1 C, 35 P) C. Parasites of carnivores (2 C, 5 P) E.
A fish parasite, the isopod Cymothoa exigua, replacing the tongue of a Lithognathus. Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives (at least some of the time) on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and is adapted structurally to this way of life. [1]