Talk:Parasite Creation/@comment-24415673-20140929180904/@comment-26517627-20151221204843

Correct but it is more complicated than that.

antagonistic or antipathetic symbiosis is a better term. Some parasites are necrotrophic (killing the host) but parasites that are biotrophic rely on the host surviving aka not murdering the host.

Those parasites that rely on the host staying alive eventually will develop into commensalistic symbiosis and then mutualistic symbiosis. Since the parasite in question wants to keep the host alive.