Definition, Meaning & Anagrams | English word KOINOBIONT
KOINOBIONT
Definitions of KOINOBIONT
- (biology, of a parasitoid) Whose host continues to feed and grow after parasitization.
- (biology) A parasitoid whose host continues to feed and grow after parasitization.
Number of letters
10
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using KOINOBIONT in a Sentence
- They mainly follow one of two major strategies within parasitism: either they are endoparasitic, developing inside the host, and koinobiont, allowing the host to continue to feed, develop, and moult; or they are ectoparasitic, developing outside the host, and idiobiont, paralysing the host immediately.
- Those species whose life history has been studied are all koinobiont parasitoids on wood-boring beetle larvae (mainly Cerambycidae and Curculionidae but sometimes Buprestidae).
- They are koinobiont endoparasitoids of larval Lepidoptera, although at least one species parasitizes Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera).
- Like other genera in the subfamily Ctenopelmatinae, Westwoodia are koinobiont endoparasitoids of sawflies.
- These wasps are koinobiont endoparasitoids of larvae of Tenebrionidae or moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea.
- Paracyphononyx is a genus of spider wasps distributed in the tropics and warmer temperate regions; they differ from other pompilids in that they do not permanently disable the host spider but allow the spider to resume activity after the wasp has laid its egg on the spider while the wasp larva exists as koinobiont ectoparasitoid of the spider.
- Little has been observed of the biology of Dirrhope but due to their close relationship with the Microgastrinae they are likely koinobiont endoparasitoids and may carry polydnaviruses.
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