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heteroecious

[‚hed·ə′rē·shəs]
(biology)
Pertaining to forms that pass through different stages of a life cycle in different hosts.
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However, a lack of correlation between density and disease is perhaps not surprising here, given that the rust is heteroecious with no direct transmission among plants.
Thinning reduces the effect of rust infection on jewelweed (Impatiens capensis)
monoica, the heteroecious rust (passes from Koleria to Arabis), was highest where Koleria was the most dense (Gold Creek).
Patterns of rust infection as a function of host genetic diversity and host density in natural populations of the apomictic crucifer, Arabis holboellii
The nominotypical subspecies is heteroecious holocyclic between Rosa spp.
Wahlgreniella nervata (Hemiptera: Aphididae), a new pest of rose in India
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