Parasite of the Day

Today we're featuring a guest post by Darragh Casey - a student from 4th year class of the Applied Freshwater and Marine Biology' de...

Today we're featuring a guest post by Sally O'Meara - a student from 4th year class of the Applied Freshwater and Marine Biology...

Corals are host to a wide range of pathogens  and one of the most unusual is a type of parasitic fluke which cause the polyps of Porite cor...

We've reached the end of yet another year and as usual there were many interesting new papers published this year, but so little time to...

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

A while ago, I wrote a post about a tadpole pinworm , and pinworms are found in the hindgut of a variety of different vertebrate animals. Bu...

Hookworms are long, skinny gut-dwelling vampires, and there are about 500 million people around the world who are infected with these parasi...

Usually on this blog, caterpillars are featured as reluctant hosts for a variety of different parasites, ranging from parasitoid wasps to ...

This is the third and final post in a series of blog posts written by students from my third year Evolutionary Parasitology unit (ZOOL329/52...

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