Parasite of the Day
April 11, 2024
Anoplocephala gorillae
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Tapeworms are found in all kinds of vertebrate animals, and while their life cycles and transmission usually rely upon parasitised prey bein...
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March 9, 2024
Veneriserva pygoclava
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There are many ways to become a parasite , and there are parasites with vastly different ancestries that end up joining the same path on th...
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February 12, 2024
Ascarophis globuligera
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To land-dwelling humans, deep sea hydrothermal vents would seem like a vision of hell, amidst the crushing darkness you have plumes of supe...
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January 7, 2024
Prosthogonimus cuneatus
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Prosthogonimus is a genus of flukes that live in a special part of a bird's anatomy. It is usually found either in the Bursa of Fabrici...
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December 14, 2023
Euglenaformis parasitica
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This parasite is invisible to the naked eye, can kill its host in 3 days, and it can be found lurking in the waters of rice fields. What I h...
November 14, 2023
Stylops ater
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Strepisptera is an order of parasitic insects with some very unique characteristics.They are also known as twisted wing parasites, based on...
October 10, 2023
Atriophallophorus winterbourni
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In Lake Alexandrina of New Zealand lives a species of tiny freshwater snail called Potamopyrgus antipodarum . These snails are capable of a...
September 8, 2023
Rhizolepas
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Parasitism has evolved a few different times in barnacles. Most parasitic barnacles belong to a group called the rhizocephalans , which are ...
August 10, 2023
Bothrigaster variolaris
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Student guest post time! One of the assessments that I set for students in my ZOOL329 Evolutionary Parasitology class is for them to summari...
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July 11, 2023
Diexanthema hakuhomaruae
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The study in this post takes us to one of the darkest corners of the deep sea, over 7000 m below sea level in the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench, lo...
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