- host selection principle
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A theoretical hypothesis that female organisms that breed on two or more hosts will return to the host on which she was reared to reproduce.
Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology. A.R. Maggenti and S.L. Gardne. 2005.
host selection principle
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