Host (biology)
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A host is an organism which provides shelter for parasites. Parasites will live on the animal and may lay their eggs on them.
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- Micropredator Parasite Parasitoid Predator strategies compared.svg
Micropredator, parasite, parasitoid, and predator strategies compared. Their interactions with their hosts form a continuum. Micropredation and parasitoidism are now considered to be evolutionary strategies within parasitism.
- Spilarctia luteum larva.JPG
Buff ermine moth caterpillar, a polyphagous micropredator
Influenza virus can change by genetic reassortment as it travels between different hosts in its range.
- Mycorrhizal root tips (amanita).jpg
Mycorrhiza, a mutualistic interaction between a plant's roots and a fungus
- Coris gaimard and Labroides phthirophagus.JPG
Cleaning symbiosis: a Hawaiian cleaner wrasse with its client, a yellowtail wrasse
- Nurse shark with remoras (cropped).jpg
Nurse shark playing host to commensal remoras, which gain a free ride and which may serve as cleaners