Parasitology Glossar

Question 1

mollicutes

Answer 1

Bacteria without cell wall

phytoplasmas are G+ of Mollicutes

Question 2

Phytoplasmas

Answer 2

no in vitro cell free culture.
obligate intracellular parasites
sieve elements of plants
transmitted by hemiptera
more than 1000 plant diseases
EX: Candidatus pyri (casual agent of pear tree decline

Question 3

direct vs indirect life cycle

Answer 3

parasitic life cycle occur in a variety of forms,all involving the exploitation of one or more host. those that must infect more than one host species to complete their life cycle are called complex or indirect life cycle.

those that infect a single species have direct life cycle
Barbers Pole Worm ( Haemonchus contortus)

Question 4

Host plant of a parasite

Answer 4

Host for a life period of the parasite from egg to pups. most of the cycle. it represents the main food source for the plant parasite. in center Europe there can be a secondary host plant because the insect live over winter on some conifera

Question 5

idiobiont

Answer 5

parasitology whowhose host do not develop further after being parasitizied

Question 6

koinobiont

Answer 6

parasitology whose host continue feeding and usual moulding after the parasitic has proposed in them . depending on amount of damage. even stage of larva and pups of the host. still ending witht death as we speak of parasitoids.

Question 7

parasitoid

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Question 8

vector competence

Answer 8

arthropods are big group of vectors transmissions

:this is defined as the ability

Question 9

pathogenicy

Answer 9

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Question 10

virus transmission

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Question 11

describe indirect life cycle

Answer 11

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Question 12

list 5 advantage parasitic way of life

Answer 12

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Question 13

list 5 disadvantage

Answer 13

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Question 14

define parasitic host manipulation.

Answer 14

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Question 15

poulin criteria

Answer 15

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Question 16

adaptive vs non

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Question 17

2 levels and 4 categpries

Answer 17

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Question 18

who manipulats

Answer 18

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Question 19

3 ways of manipulating

Answer 19

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Question 20

Leptothorax nylander

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Question 21

Mermithid nematodes

Answer 21

Paragordius tricuspidatus

Question 22

red berry ant

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Myrmeconema neotropicum

Question 23

rabies

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Question 24

rabies

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Question 25

gel in mouthpart and gut

Answer 25

Leishmania spp.

Question 26

Malaria

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Plasmodium spp

Question 27

indirect cycle 3 stage

Answer 27

Dicrocoelium dendriticum

snail and ruminants (some time human)