Abstract
It is clear that tapeworms and other gastrointestinal parasites absorb nutrients from their hosts and that such movement of materials from the hosts into parasites is an essential element of host-parasite relationships. In fact, “parasitism” is generally defined, in part, in terms of such movement of materials, for definitions of parasitism often include some statement relating to the metabolic dependence of a parasite on its host.
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Pappas, P.W. (1985). Nutrient Uptake by Tapeworms. In: Gilles, R., Gilles-Baillien, M. (eds) Transport Processes, Iono- and Osmoregulation. Proceedings in Life Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-70613-4_29
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