Parasite of the Day

The bile duct of a bird is probably the last place you'd expect to find a microscopic, parasitic relative of jellyfish, but that is exac...

Parasites are a major part of biodiversity, but they spend most of their time hidden in plain sight. Even with some animals that have been k...

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...

Student guest post time! One of the assessments that I set for students in my ZOOL329 Evolutionary Parasitology class is for them to summari...

Leucochloridium paradoxum is one of those parasites which is immediately recognisable on sight. Commonly known as the "zombie snail par...

Quite a few years ago I wrote a blog post about a study on some bird lice that hitch-hike on louse flies as a way of reaching new hosts - t...

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

Most parasites are very picky about what host they infect. Even those that can infect a number of different host species usually parasitise ...

Human activities are having very significant impacts on the ecosystems of this planet and it is affecting every organisms. Parasites are not...

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...

If you have ever gone for a swim in a lake and later found your arms and legs covered in red itchy welts resembling mosquito bites, it is q...

What does the cause of pigeon canker, today's parasite, and the most common curable sexually transmitted infection in the world have in ...

Photo by USFWS Endangered Species The Lesser Prairie-Chicken ( Tympanuchus pallindicintus ) is a very distinctive bird. During breeding ...

You would think that of all living things, parasites would have the least need to move around. After all, it is sitting in its ideal habitat...

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