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Eichler's rule
Coevolutionary principle regerding parasites and hosts / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Eichler's rule is one of several coevolutionary rules which states that parasites tend to be highly specific to their hosts, and thus it seems reasonable to expect a positive co-variation between the taxonomic richness of hosts and that of their parasites.
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