Host (biology)

The Roof rat (rattus rattus) is a host of bubonic plague.

A host is an organism which provides shelter for parasites. Parasites will live on the animal and may lay their eggs on them.

Host (biology) Media

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  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.

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  Buff ermine moth caterpillar, a polyphagous micropredator

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  Influenza virus can change by genetic reassortment as it travels between different hosts in its range.

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  Mycorrhiza, a mutualistic interaction between a plant's roots and a fungus

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  Cleaning symbiosis: a Hawaiian cleaner wrasse with its client, a yellowtail wrasse

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  Nurse shark playing host to commensal remoras, which gain a free ride and which may serve as cleaners