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Parasites in a narrow sense are animals and plants which obtain their food either from other plants or animals respectively humans. The present chapter presents an overview on the different types of animal parasites, reports on their strategies for host selection and conquering host defense systems.
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Mehlhorn, H. (2016). Phenomenon Parasitism. In: Animal Parasites. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46403-9_1
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