autoecism

Definitions

1. The fact of a parasite or dependent organism completing an entire life cycle on a single host species.
   uncountable
2. The fact of having male and female reproductive organs on the same individual plant.
   uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“1972, B. K. Bakshi, Relative Blister Rust Resistance of Native and Introduced White Pines in Asia, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, International Union of Forestry Research⟳ Organizations, US Forest Service, University of Idaho, Biology of Rust Resistance in Forest Trees: Proceedings of a NATO-IUFRO Advanced Study⟳ Institute, page 254, This may possibly be explained by autoecism (pine-to-pine spread⟳) in the aecial stage⟳ of the rust, but autoecism has not been conclusively proved (Spaulding, 1922).”

“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.”

“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).”

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