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Eichler's rule (Biodiversity 🦗)
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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichler's_rule
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