Parasite of the Day

The word parasite has a lot of connotations associated with it, and "maternal" is certainly not one of them. To most people, the t...

When I saw the reports of giant amphipods being dragged up from the Kermadec Trench off the coast of New Zealand, my immediate thought was ...

Parasitic infections can severely debilitate the host in many ways, sometimes this manifests itself as the loss of some, or even all, of the...

Today, we look at a paper showing how data from DNA sequences can help resolve the evolutionary relationship of different parasite species, ...

Many of you have heard of the very scary phenomenon called "Colony Collapse Disorder" - and if you haven't, you should, becaus...

Through out 2011, we have been featuring more weird and wonderful parasites as we have done in 2010, but on top of that we have also been fe...

Today's parasite, Hematodinium sp., infects blue crabs and causes a disease known as "bitter crab". While the name may sound ...

Today, we are featuring a paper which reported on a grey reef shark ( Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos ) at Burger's Zoo in the Netherlands ...

Many parasites can have substantial effects on their hosts, but their impact can often extend to other organisms in the environment. Today...

Have you ever been so intoxicated that you start walking erratically, stumble away from your friends, stagger around in circles, clamber o...