Another parasite […] had become parasitic upon the parasite. The most curious part of this super-parasitic history is, that the roots of Sacculina and Peltogaster (two forms of rhizocephalous Cirripedia parasitic on crabs and hermit-crabs) seem constantly to be made use of by two parasitic Isopods
- struggle for existence
- struggle of parts
- study of heredity
- subject
- subjective world
- subspecies
- succession
- super-organic
- super-summative
- superorganism
- superparasitic
- superparasitism
- superspecies
- supraorganismics
- survival
- survival of the fittest
- survival selection
- survival value
- sustainability
- symbiogenesis
- symbiology
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superparasiticsuperparasitisch (ger.)
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1) Of or relating to a parasite of a parasite; hyperparasitic (OED 2012)
- 1877
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Woodward, H. (1877). Crustacea. Encyclopaedia Britannica (9th ed.) vol. 6, 632-666: 647.
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2) Relating to or characterized by the infestation of a host by more than one parasite or parasitoid of the same species. (OED 2012)
- 1935
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Although very abundant, the actual loss which the Tyria population incurred as a result of its activities was relatively small—due to its superparasitic habit.
Cameron, E. (1935). A study of the natural control of ragwort (Senecio Jacobaea L.). Journal of Ecology 23, 265-322: 294.