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A secondary organism with which the first organism is interacting. Any organism in which another organism, especially a parasite or symbiont, spends part or all of its life cycle and from which it obtains nourishment and/or protection. The environmental space outside of an organism; this may be a host organism in the case of parasitic and symbiotic organisms. A cell within a host organism. Includes the host plasma membrane and any external encapsulating structures such as the host cell wall and cell envelope. The junction between a nerve fiber of one host neuron and another host neuron or muscle fiber or glial cell; the site of interneuronal communication. The space within a host but external to the plasma membrane of host cells, e.g. within host bloodstream.

View Gene Ontology (GO) Term

GO TERM SUMMARY
Name: host
Acc: GO:0018995
Aspect: Cellular Component
Desc: Any organism in which another organism, especially a parasite or symbiont, spends part or all of its life cycle and from which it obtains nourishment and/or protection.
Synonyms:
  • host organism
Proteins in PDR annotated with:
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GO:0018995 - host (interactive image map)
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