Parasite of the Day

A lot has certainly happened this year - and I'm not even talking about parasitology. I can barely believe that as of this year, I have ...

Parasites manipulating their hosts' appearance and behaviour is one aspect of parasitology which seems to have captured the public's...

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

There are variety of mites which live with ants , but many of them are not well-studied. Most of them are either phoretic mites which hitch ...

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...