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Parasitism causes a reduction in fitness to the host, if anything most of these strategies would be better defined as commensal, i.e. beneficial to the fitness
by normative 17y ago
Parasitism causes a reduction in fitness to the host, if anything most of these strategies would be better defined as commensal, i.e. beneficial to the fitness of the symbiont but having no positive or negative effect on the host.