enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Parasitoid - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitoid

    A perspective on the evolutionary options can be gained by considering four questions: the effect on the reproductive fitness of a parasite's hosts; the number of hosts they have per life stage; whether the host is prevented from reproducing; and whether the effect depends on intensity (number of parasites per host). From this analysis ...

  3. Computer worm - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_worm

    A computer worm is a standalone malware computer program that replicates itself in order to spread to other computers. [1] It often uses a computer network to spread itself, relying on security failures on the target computer to access it. It will use this machine as a host to scan and infect other computers.

  4. Compsilura concinnata - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compsilura_concinnata

    The fly is an endoparasitoid of insect larvae that lives within its host for most of its life. The parasitoid eventually kills the host and occasionally eats it. It attacks over 200 host species, mainly insects from the orders Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, and Hymenoptera.

  5. List of parasites of humans - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parasites_of_humans

    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 ...

  6. Parasitism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasitism

    A perspective on the evolutionary options can be gained by considering four key questions: the effect on the fitness of a parasite's hosts; the number of hosts they have per life stage; whether the host is prevented from reproducing; and whether the effect depends on intensity (number of parasites per host). From this analysis, the major ...

  7. Computer virus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_virus

    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 30 December 2024. Computer program that modifies other programs to replicate itself and spread Hex dump of the Brain virus, generally regarded as the first computer virus for the IBM Personal Computer (IBM PC) and compatibles A computer virus is a type of malware that, when executed, replicates itself by ...

  8. Morris worm - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_worm

    This had the same effect as a fork bomb, and crashed the computer several times. The main body of the worm can infect only DEC VAX machines running 4 BSD , alongside Sun-3 systems. A portable C "grappling hook" component of the worm was used to download the main body parts, and the grappling hook runs on other systems, loading them down and ...

  9. Gongylonema pulchrum - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gongylonema_pulchrum

    Gongylonema pulchrum infections are due to humans acting as accidental hosts for the parasite. There are seven genera of spirudia nematodes that infect human hosts accidentally: Gnathostoma, Thelazia, Gongylonema, Physaloptera, Spirocerca, Rictularia. The G. pulchrum parasite is a nematode worm of the order Spirurida. It is a relatively thin ...