Parasite of the Day

Today we are featuring a guest post by Dr Emily Uhrig , a postdoctoral research fellow currently at Linköping University, Sweden. She has wr...

Most people are familiar with how barnacles look like - sedentary creatures which filter the surrounding water for food while being stuck at...

Lichens can be found all over the world, even in the most barren and inhospitable environments (even near active volcanoes ).  They grow o...

There are many examples in nature where parasites are able to alter their host's behaviour in some way. More recently, some scientists ...

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

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

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

Those who have been reading this blog for a while will know that August is student guest post month! All this month this blog will be featur...

We have featured hairworms ( Nematomorpha ) quite a few times before on this blog, but for those who are new to them, they are parasitic bod...

One of the key characteristic of plants is their ability to produce food using sunlight via the process of photosynthesis . But there are ma...