Le commensalisme de Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden à Maurice Caullery : l'émergence de la zoologie expérimentale

  • Poreau, Brice
Publication date
January 2012
Publisher
HAL CCSD

Abstract

International audienceCommensalism is a kind of association between two different species. In this association, contrary to mutualism or parasitism, one of the two species gives an advantage to the other one. The other one doesn't give any advantage or disadvantage to the specific one. In the association called parasitism, one species destroy the second species. In the association called mutualism, the two species give advantage to each other. This study had been performed by Pierre-Joseph Van Beneden (1809-1894) in the middle of the nineteeth cen- tury. In 1922, the French biologist Maurice Caullery (1868-1958) will put forward the concept of commensalism. We would like to explain the differ- ences between the commensalism of Van Beneden a...

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