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Probably both: it was a case of symbiotic parasitism.
And in such a complete case of parasitism, even the former caterpillar's genome could have been reduced.
Yet parasitism is widespread and can affect behavior, reproduction and other aspects of the lives of hosts.
Evolutionarily, it seems to me that the best way to regard the marmoset story is as parasitism.
At first glance, this approach might seem to bear out the charge of parasitism.
Some species have developed ways to combat cowbird nest parasitism.
Mortality is affected by bad weather, predation, parasitism and infectious diseases.
All these are complicated questions, and unfortunately there's a lot of room for over-simplification and personal parasitism.
Dogs have not quite reached that point in their parasitism of human society.
Chapman is trying to determine how nutrition and parasitism operate synergistically to influence primate population size.
Scientists also will look at parasitism of songbird nests by cowbirds, predation and the reproductive success of songbirds.

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