Biology:Heteroxeny
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Short description: Several-host parasitic lifestyle
A dixenous life cycle: the apicomplexan parasitic protist Babesia microti and its two different taxonomic hosts, the deer tick and the white-footed mouse.
Heteroxeny, or heteroxenous development, characterizes a parasite whose development involves several host species.[1] Heteroxeny has been used as the basis for splitting genera.[2]
When there are two or three hosts, the development cycle is named diheteroxenous or triheteroxenous, respectively. More ambiguously, these terms are sometimes synonymized as dixenous or trixenous.[1]
The etymology of the terms heteroxeny / heteroxenous derives from the two ancient Greek words ἕτερος (héteros), meaning "other, another, different", and ξένος (xénos), meaning "foreign".[3][4]
In mycology, the term heteroecious has also been used for parasitic fungi with multiple hosts, and the terms can be used synonymously.[5]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Odening, Klaus (1976-01-20). "Conception and terminology of hosts in parasitology". in Dawes, Ben (in en). Advances in Parasitology. 14. Academic Press. pp. 24–25. ISBN 978-0-08-058060-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=rcRtCavuUYEC&pg=PA24.
- ↑ Frenkel, J. K.; Dubey, J. P. (27 March 2000). "The taxonomic importance of obligate heteroxeny: distinction of Hammondia hammondi from Toxoplasma gondii – another opinion". Parasitology Research 86 (10): 783–786. doi:10.1007/s004360000261. PMID 11068808. https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs004360000261.pdf.
- ↑ Bailly, Anatole (1981-01-01). Abrégé du dictionnaire grec français. Paris: Hachette. ISBN 978-2010035289. OCLC 461974285.
- ↑ Bailly, Anatole. "Greek-french dictionary online". http://www.tabularium.be/bailly/.
- ↑ Malloch, David (1995). "Fungi with heteroxenous life histories". Canadian Journal of Botany 73: 1334–1342. doi:10.1139/b95-395. https://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/b95-395.
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