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  • Greatest Comic Book Villain of All Time. The Rudy Jones incarnation of the Parasite has been substantially adapted from the comics into multiple forms of...
    39 KB (4,967 words) - 01:51, 7 September 2024
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    Parasitism is a close relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or inside another organism, the host, causing it some harm...
    122 KB (12,317 words) - 06:52, 7 October 2024
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    animals,: 1  but felids are the only known definitive hosts in which the parasite may undergo sexual reproduction. In rodents, T. gondii alters behavior...
    104 KB (11,872 words) - 15:50, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ichthyophthirius multifiliis
    The name literally translates as "the fish louse with many children". The parasite can infect most freshwater fish species and, in contrast to many other...
    22 KB (2,678 words) - 20:50, 31 August 2024
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    coordination, numbness, and trouble sleeping. Diagnosis is by finding the parasite in a blood smear or in the fluid of a lymph node. A lumbar puncture is...
    77 KB (7,173 words) - 21:08, 24 September 2024
  • similar theme, by the mutual benefit to the organisms involved, whereas the parasite inflicts harm on its host. Relationships between species in early science...
    4 KB (443 words) - 17:51, 9 June 2024
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    tubificid oligochaete (a kind of segmented worm) to complete its life cycle. The parasite infects its hosts with its cells after piercing them with polar filaments...
    25 KB (3,268 words) - 00:33, 10 August 2024
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    or other organ transplant. It is not otherwise spread between people. The parasite is known to reproduce sexually only in the cat family. However, it can...
    132 KB (14,622 words) - 22:01, 4 October 2024
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    throughout the parasite are secretory vesicles called dense granules that contain parasite proteins involved in modifying the membrane that separates the parasite...
    42 KB (4,171 words) - 06:32, 20 August 2024
  • energy, but instead bonded with Rudy's DNA to create the Parasite. Luthor deduces that the Parasite would have gained Superman's weaknesses from absorbing...
    11 KB (1,256 words) - 18:10, 22 September 2024
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    are about 7.5–15 mm (0.3–0.6 in) long and 3–7 mm (0.12–0.28 in) wide. The parasite severs the blood vessels in the fish's tongue, causing the tongue to...
    12 KB (1,319 words) - 22:50, 26 September 2024
  • Holoparasites and some hemiparasites are obligate. It is advantageous for the parasite to preserve the health of its host when this is compatible with its nutritional...
    16 KB (2,109 words) - 01:28, 15 April 2024
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    explanation of rape as well as his work on insect mating systems and the parasite-stress theory. Thornhill was born in Alabama in 1944. When he was 12...
    9 KB (757 words) - 22:17, 12 October 2023
  • biting midges for Hemoproteus. The range of symptoms and effects of the parasite on its bird hosts is very wide, from asymptomatic cases to drastic population...
    28 KB (3,556 words) - 22:09, 12 September 2024
  • battled Spider-Man and would do so in the future as well) from Marvel, and the Parasite (a lesser-known Superman foe) from DC. The comic also pits Superman against...
    10 KB (1,277 words) - 03:06, 20 May 2024
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    to the female vagina and uterus from the foreskin of the bull where the parasite is known to reside. It causes infertility, and, at times, has caused...
    17 KB (2,220 words) - 07:50, 19 May 2024
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    Konstantin Nikolaevich Vinogradov (1847–1906) found it in a human, and named the parasite a "Siberian liver fluke". In the 1930s, helminthologist Hans Vogel of...
    6 KB (529 words) - 18:38, 3 February 2024
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    interacting and mating. This can ultimately lead to speciation within the parasite. According to Fahrenholz's rule, first proposed by Heinrich Fahrenholz...
    14 KB (1,529 words) - 17:12, 9 June 2024
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    Trichomoniasis (trich) is an infectious disease caused by the parasite Trichomonas vaginalis. About 70% of affected people do not have symptoms when infected...
    28 KB (2,821 words) - 09:25, 4 October 2024
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    biology, parasitism is a relationship between species, where one organism, the parasite, lives on or in another organism, the host, causing it some harm, and...
    30 KB (2,687 words) - 20:30, 20 September 2024
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