Parasite of the Day

Being on top of the food chain sounds like it'd be pretty awesome - all the other animals in the ecosystem are potentially your food and...

If you've ever been out hiking in the wilderness, you would know that there is no shortage of tiny animals out there that love nothing m...

Tapeworms are found in the guts of every class of vertebrate animals . And even though the tapeworms that most people are familiar with infe...

Polychaete worms are common in the marine environment, living in just about every habitat ranging from the seashores, to the open ocean, th...

Parasites with complex life-cycles often use predator-prey interactions to facilitate their transmission. They have larval stages which infe...

Ophiocordyceps is a genus of fungi that is probably most well-known for their abilities to usurp and manipulate the behaviour of ants, whic...

While there is an oft-mentioned quote by evolutionary biologist JBS Haldane that God has an " Inordinate Fondness For Beetles ", i...

For most people, tapeworms are among the most recognisable types of parasites. The most commonly known species include the beef tapeworm , p...

Here's the second student guest posts from the third year Evolutionary Parasitology unit (ZOOL329) class of 2020. This post was written ...

It's time for some student guest posts! One of the assessments I set for students in my ZOOL329 Evolutionary Parasitology class is for t...