Necromeny is asymbiotic relationship where an animal (typically a juvenile stagenematode) infects a host and waits inside its body until its death, at which point it develops and completes its life-cycle on the cadaver, feeding on the decaying matter and the subsequent bacterial growth.[1] As the necromenic animal benefits from the relationship while the host is unharmed, it is an example ofcommensalism.[2]
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