Autoecism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Autoecism is a noun meaning (ecology) The fact of a parasite or dependent organism completing an entire life cycle on a single host species.
Meaning
(ecology) The fact of a parasite or dependent organism completing an entire life cycle on a single host species.
More Meanings
- (botany, of a plant) The fact of having male and female reproductive organs on the same individual plant.
Example Sentences
Along with this view of pleomorphism, goes the generally conceived idea that autoecism is the primitive condition, heteroecism being considered a later adaptation (Klebahn, 1904).
Other measures[…]are deficient because of the large geographic distribution of the pathogens, their wide host ranges, their high spore dispersal capabilities, and the autoecism of some rusts.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include autoecology, ectosymbiosis, autoinfection, episymbiont, ectocommensalism, endosymbiont.
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