- More
specifically in botany, a host
plant supplies food
resources to
micropredators,
which have an
evolutionarily stable relationship with
their hosts similar...
- This
behavior makes micropredators suitable as vectors, as they can p****
smaller parasites from one host to another. Most
micropredators are hematophagic...
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important pollinators,
basal consumers, scavengers/detritivores and
micropredators in
terrestrial environments.
Hexapods are
named for
their most distinctive...
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during the
Cretaceous period.
Evolutionary biologists view
mosquitoes as
micropredators,
small animals that
parasitise larger ones by
drinking their blood without...
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parasitoid wasps.
Several groups of
insects can be
considered as
either micropredators or
external parasites; for example, many
hemipteran bugs have piercing...
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mammals that have
evolved to feed
exclusively on
blood (hematophagy) as
micropredators, a
strategy within parasitism.
Hematophagy is
uncommon due to the number...
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trophically transmitted parasite, vector-transmitted parasite, and
micropredator.
These are
adaptive peaks, with many
possible intermediate strategies...
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ectoparasites and
parasitic castrators that live on its
surface and
micropredators like
mosquitoes that
visit intermittently.
Parasitism is an extremely...
- just one occasion.
There are
other difficult and
borderline cases.
Micropredators are
small animals that, like predators, feed
entirely on
other organisms;...
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blood but the
function of such
behaviour is unclear.
Leafhoppers are
micropredators that can act as
vectors transmitting plant pathogens, such as viruses...
