Parasitic Control
Toxoplasma Gondii is a tiny protozoan parasite that completes its life cycle by causing ____ to lose fear of _____, leading them to get eaten and transmit the parasite.
Rats, Cats.
This term describes the host in which a parasite reaches sexual maturity.
Definitive Host
This is the definitive host of the Plasmodium parasite, known for causing malaria.
Mosquitoes.
This scientist spent his life studying how parasites navigating within their hosts.
Michael Sukhdeo.
This type of fungal infection is commonly mistaken as a type of worm.
Sacculina castrate crabs and flukes castrate this type of common gastropod.
Snails.
This type of life cycle relies on more than one host to complete its life cycle.
Indirect life cycle
The definitive host of E. californiensis is 30 times more likely to be eaten by birds once infected with the parasite.
Killifish
This 19th century scientist believed that parasites stopped evolving and developed backwards.
Ray Lankester.
This parasite grows inside you and can reach lengths of up to 30 feet long.
This parasite changes its host’s (hornworms) metabolism to provide more energy to the parasite, many times causing the host to grow up to twice its original size.
Parasitic wasp larvae or Cotesia congregata
This ancient civilization believed that parasites were generated and spent their whole life cycle in whatever host they were found in.
Ancient Greeks.
The definitive host of this parasite are members of the family Felidae (domestics cats and their relatives).
This scientist studied the effects parasites had on snail populations in an ecosystem, determining the snail population would nearly double in the absence of the parasite.
Kevin Lafferty
These primates are known to eat spiky leaves in order to kill parasites living in their intestines.
This term describes the effect of parasites that cause their host to ascend vegetation to a higher place, increasing spore transmission.
Summiting.
Source: de Bekker et al. 2021
This 1830s scientist studied flukes to become the first to demonstrate that parasites complete their life cycles by travelling through multiple hosts/environments.
Johann Steenstrup.
This is the definitive host of the tapeworm parasite.
This scientist experimented on fruit flies and parasitic wasps, and discovered ways to make the fruit flies increasingly more resistant to the parasitic wasps.
Kraaijeveld.
The Cleanner Wrasse is a small fish that eats parasites off of bigger fish, an example of this kind of symbiotic relationship.
This term describes a form of parasitic control in which the parasite alters the behavior of its host so that the host protects the offspring of the parasite.
The life cycle of Schistosoma, a type of flatworm, begins when what is released from the body of the host?
Trypanosoma brucei is a parasite that causes sleeping sickness in humans, but its definitive host is actually this species of flying insect.
Tsetse flies.
https://study.com/academy/lesson/obligate-accidental-hosts-in-parasitic-life-cycles.html)
This scientist is partially named in a hypothesis that states male showiness allows females to assess the male’s ability to resist parasites.
William Hamilton.
Parasites are said to be the most common life form on Earth, making up over __% of living things.