"Parasitism" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... remain mainly untold. In the book of nature there are written, for instance, the triumphs of survival, the tragedy of death and extinction, the tragi-comedy of degradation and inheritance, the gruesome lesson of parasitism, and the political satire of colonial organisms. Zoology is, indeed, a philosophy and a literature to those who can read its symbols. In the contemplation of beauty of form and of mechanical beauty, and in the intellectual ...
— Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata • H. G. Wells
... dicotyledon, on the other hand, the asexual generation or embryo is again for a time nourished in the interior of the embryo-sac representing the sexual generation, and this again derives its nourishment from the previous asexual generation, so that as in the moss, there is again a partial parasitism of one generation ...
— Scientific American Supplement, Vol. XXI., No. 531, March 6, 1886 • Various
... symptomatic variety are usually evident; the etiology of idiopathic atrophy is obscure, but by many is thought due to parasitism. ...
— Essentials of Diseases of the Skin • Henry Weightman Stelwagon
... microscopic examination the vessels are found filled with gum. M. Comes recognizes in this disease all the symptoms of the affection which has been designated under the name humid gangrene. He thinks that it is the same disease which, by German authors, is attributed to the parasitism of Pleospora Napi, Fuckel, or to its conidiferous form, sporidesmium excitosum, Kuehn. But he considers the presence of these parasites as an accessory phenomenon, as well as that of Cladosporium and Macrosporium Brassicae. In his opinion ...
— The Cauliflower • A. A. Crozier
... few blows of the pick to the surface beneath which the singular incidents already in our mind must be occurring, beneath which similar things occurred last year; perhaps we shall find some evidence of the parasitism which we suspected. If we search the dwellings of the Anthophorae during the early days of August, this is what we see: the cells forming the superficial layer are not like those situated at a greater depth. This difference arises from the ...
— The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles • Jean Henri Fabre |
