Parasite of the Day

Tapeworms are found in all kinds of vertebrate animals, and while their life cycles and transmission usually rely upon parasitised prey bein...

Earlier this year, I wrote about Aggregata sinensis   a species of single-celled apicomplexan parasite that infects octopus. But octopuses a...

Tasmanian Devil is a cute marsupial that packs a mean bite . This charismatic carnivore is found throughout the island of Tasmania and is t...

Tapeworms are found in the guts of every class of vertebrate animals . And even though the tapeworms that most people are familiar with infe...

For most people, tapeworms are among the most recognisable types of parasites. The most commonly known species include the beef tapeworm , p...

Today, we are featuring a guest post from Marie Defraigne - she is an MSc student on the  IMBRSea  programme, and is currently working (albe...

Scallops are highly prized as seafood because of their tasty adductor muscle and roe, but humans are not the only ones with a taste for scal...

Most people probably think of tapeworms as being parasites that infect their pets, livestock, or even themselves - so mostly as parasites of...

Tapeworms are a very diverse group of parasitic worms. There are about 6000 described species and they infect a wide range of different vert...

Most of the time, being infected with parasites is costly to the host in some way. But sometimes there might be circumstance when the presen...

There are many examples of parasites altering the behaviour of their hosts, and some of them turn their hosts into functionally different a...

This is the fourth post in a series of blog posts written by students from my third year Evolutionary Parasitology unit (ZOOL329/529) class ...

Many parasite can cause health problems for their hosts, but aside from those that infect humans and domestic animals, it is not entirely cl...

It has been known for some time that intestinal parasites such as tapeworms can accumulate high concentrations of heavy metals , acting as a...