Animals keep viruses in the sea in balance
Credit: NIOZ A variety of sea animals can take up virus particles while filtering seawater for oxygen and food. Sponges ...
Tag: Parasitology
All microgastrinae wasps from around the world finally together in a 1,089-page monograph
Credit: Dr. Jose Fernandez-Triana With 3,000 known species and thousands more left to describe, the wasps of the subfamily Microgastrinae ...
Common anti-parasite treatments used on cattle have devastating impacts on wildlife
Experts have stressed an urgent need to find alternatives to wormers and anti-ectoparasitic products used widely on cattleCredit: © Fiona ...
Predicting the impacts of white-nose syndrome in bats
Credit: Virginia Tech Since 2005, millions of bats have perished from white-nose syndrome, a disease caused by the fungus Pseudogymnoascus ...
Fall precipitation predicts abundance of curly top disease and guides weed management
Credit: Erik Lehnhoff and Rebecca Creamer Transmitted by an insect known as the beet leafhopper, curly top disease is a ...
Aerial insect trap network describes life in the skies
Credit: Doris Lagos-Kutz, USDA-ARS and University of Illinois URBANA, Ill. - Like most invasive species, when the soybean aphid arrived ...
How a virus forms its symmetric shells
UC Riverside-led study could inform the design of engineered nano-shells used in drug deliveryCredit: Zandi lab, UC Riverside. RIVERSIDE, Calif. ...
Pesticides increase the risk of schistosomiasis, a tropical disease
UFZ researchers have proven that polluted freshwater bodies favour the intermediate host of the pathogenCredit: @UFZ Schistosomiasis is a severe ...
Scientists create model to predict multipathogen epidemics
Zooplankton study shows within-host pathogen interactions can predict epidemic severityCredit: University of Michigan HOUSTON -- (March 5, 2020) -- Diseases ...
Newfound cell defense system features toxin-isolating ‘sponges’
Credit: Courtesy of Nature A "decoy" mechanism has been found in human and animal cells to protect them from potentially ...
Novel compound sparks new malaria treatment hope
Credit: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute A novel class of antimalarial compounds that can effectively kill malaria parasites has been ...
Scorpions make a fluorescent compound that could help protect them from parasites
Credit: Adapted from Journal of Natural Products 2020, DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.9b00972 Most scorpions glow a blue-green color when illuminated by ultraviolet ...
The enemy within: How a killer hijacked one of nature’s oldest relationships
Credit: Henry Driver (commissioned by Essex County Council). Researchers have discovered how a notorious pathogen may have hijacked one of ...
Clemson researchers ID protein function in parasites that cause sometimes fatal diseases
Credit: Pete Martin, College of Science CLEMSON, South Carolina -- In the quest to develop more effective treatments for parasitic ...