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- noun biology The
simultaneous extinction of two or morespecies (especially when one is dependent on the other)
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Examples
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Host-parasite coextinction and the plight of tick conservation.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Host-parasite coextinction and the plight of tick conservation.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Host-parasite coextinction and the plight of tick conservation.
Parasite Rex Carl Zimmer 2009
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Of course, even beginning to address the threat of coextinction raises novel problems.
Mongabay.com News 2009
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Whichever explanation turn out to be correct-is coextinction rare or common-the authors argue that conservation of parasites, mites, ticks, aphids, bacteria, viruses, fleas, and lice is important.
Mongabay.com News 2009
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Rob Dunn: Most of what we know about the relationships between parasites and hosts suggests that coextinction should be at least as common as host extinction - extinction of the things we think about more often, the warm, cuddly, big-eyed things.
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Dunn said coextinction is a great loss, personally and biologically.
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"On the one hand, growing numbers of studies find evidence of rapid evolution of the ability to survive and reproduce on new hosts … yet, in order to understand the significance of evolutionary responses to estimates of coextinction rates, one needs to know how often such events occur," write the authors.
Mongabay.com News 2009
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It's the consequence of what Dunn called 'coextinction.'
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Dunn said coextinction highlights the interactions of species and the consequences of extinction.
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