6 апр. 2018 г. · If you want to control your parasite infection, the time that you eat may be the answer. Research recently published in PLoS Pathogens has found .
Do parasites eat their hosts?
Parasites are plants or animals that live in or on another living thing, getting their food from it while it is still alive. The organisms that they live on are called hosts. Hosts never benefit from parasites.
Do parasites normally kill their host?
In contrast to typical predators, parasites do not always kill their hosts, and if they do, it may take a considerable amount of time, during which the parasite may be transmitted to other hosts, and the host remains in the community competing with other organisms for space, food, and mating partners.
Do parasites eat each other?
New research could hold an answer—it turns out that parasites may drive their hosts to cannibalism. A team of researchers from the University of Leeds, intrigued by how pervasive cannibalism is in environments where resources are limited, wondered if parasites might be linked.
Do parasites need to eat?
Parasites could be using glucose (or other things present in the host blood after eating) as a food source: When hosts eat, parasites eat. Or parasites might be using host feeding as an environmental time cue, like we use the sun.
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