an association in which one animal clings to another to ensure movement from place to place, as some mites use some insects
Word origin
C20: from New Latin phoresia, from Greek phorēsis, from pherein to carry
phoresy in American English
(ˈfɔrəsi)
noun
Zoology(among insects and arachnids)
a nonparasitic relationship in which one species is carried about by another
Word origin
[1920–25; ‹ NL phoresia ‹ Gk phórēs(is) a wearing (phorē-, verbid s. of phoreîn, durative of phérein to bear1 + -sis-sis) + -ia-y3]This word is first recorded in the period 1920–25. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: audio, fundamentalism, montage, self-service, ski jump-y is a suffix of various origins used in the formation of action nouns from verbs (inquiry), also found in other abstract nouns (carpentry; infamy)
Examples of 'phoresy' in a sentence
phoresy
This structure can be dispersed by wind or phoresy.
Gwendoline Clotuche, Maria Navajas, Anne-Catherine Mailleux, Thierry Hance 2013, 'Reaching the ball or missing the flight? Collective dispersal in the two-spotted spidermite Tetranychus urticae.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3797074?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Earthworms may also promote movement via phoresy.
Erin K Cameron, Heather C Proctor, Erin M Bayne 2013, 'Effects of an ecosystem engineer on belowground movement of microarthropods.', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3640026?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The structural features are discussed in the context of phylogeny, but also possible correlations with parasitism, phoresy and miniaturisation.
Si-Qin Ge, Benjamin Wipfler, Hans Pohl, Yi Hua, Adam Slipiński, Xing-Ke Yang, RolfGeorg Beutel 2012, 'The first complete 3D reconstruction of a Spanish fly primary larva (Lytta vesicatoria,Meloidae, Coleoptera).', PLoS ONEhttp://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3530488?pdf=render. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
This species has a facultative juvenile life stage (deutonymph) during which individuals can disperse by phoresy.
Jacques A. Deere, Tim Coulson, Isabel M. Smallegange 2015, 'Life History Consequences of the Facultative Expression of a Dispersal Life Stagein the Phoretic Bulb Mite (Rhizoglyphus robini)', PLOS ONE10.1371/journal.pone.0136872. Retrieved from PLOS CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
The prevalence and intensity of phoresy in the mite species were significantly related to the attachment site on the hosts.
Tatyana Sacchi Carmona Rodrigueiro, Angelo Pires do Prado 2004, 'Macrocheles muscaedomesticae (Acari, Macrochelidae) and a species of Uroseius (Acari,Polyaspididae) phoretic on Musca domestica (Diptera, Muscidae): effects on dispersaland colonization of poultry manure', Iheringia: Série Zoologiahttp://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0073-47212004000200011. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
Instead, we review non-volant migratory movements, including: aerial migration by wingless species, pedestrian and waterborne migration, and phoresy.
Reynolds Don R., Reynolds Andrew M., Chapman Jason W. 2014, 'Non-volant modes of migration in terrestrial arthropods', Animal Migrationhttp://www.degruyter.com/view/j/ami.2014.2.issue-1/ami-2014-0002/ami-2014-0002.xml?format=INT. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)