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paratenic host — a fish which serves as an additional or optional intermediate host for a parasite. No development of the parasite occurs but the host fish may serve as an essential link in the parasite life cycle. Also called transport host … Dictionary of ichthyology
paratenic host — A host harboring a parasite that does not undergo further development and is generally of ecologic advantage in the disease cycle … Dictionary of invertebrate zoology
Host (biology) — In biology, a host is an organism that harbors a parasite, or a mutual or commensal symbiont, typically providing nourishment and shelter. In botany, a host plant is one that supplies food resources and substrate for certain insects or other… … Wikipedia
Paratenic — In parasitology, the term paratenic describes an intermediate host which is not needed for the development of the parasite, but nonetheless serves to maintain the life cycle of the parasite. Alaria americana may serve as an example: the so called … Wikipedia
Host — In medicine and biology, the host can be a number of different things, including: {{}}The organism from which a parasite obtains its nutrition and/or shelter; An organism or cell culture in which a virus can replicate itself; and The transplant… … Medical dictionary
transport host — paratenic host (a fish which serves as an additional or optional intermediate host for a parasite. No development of the parasite occurs but the host fish may serve as an essential link in the parasite life cycle) … Dictionary of ichthyology
paratenic — para·ten·ic (par″ə tenґik) denoting an intermediate host, sometimes called transfer host, of a parasite that is not essential to (neither hindering nor hastening) the completion of the parasite s life cycle. See under host … Medical dictionary
host fish — a fish that is the accidental, abnormal, final, intermediate, natural, paratenic, primary, reservoir, secondary, transport and typical (all q.v.) host or environment for a parasite, e.g. a wide variety of crustaceans and nematodes, glochidia of… … Dictionary of ichthyology
transfer host — transport host paratenic h … Medical dictionary
Parasitic life cycles — Parasite life cycles can take a variety of forms, all involving the exploitation of one or more hosts. Those that must infect more than one host species to complete their life cycles are said to have complex or indirect life cycles, while those… … Wikipedia
