Tag: Parasitology

Credit: Amanda Hund Barn swallows live almost everywhere on the planet, recognizable by their forked tail and agility in the ...

Credit: Dan Addison | UVA Communications Invasive fire ants common in the Gulf Coast and Texas likely are limiting a ...

Study offers new insights into the powerful anticoagulants contained in the saliva of leeches most often used in medical practice.Credit: ...

Credit: American Chemical Society If you're a cat owner, you might have heard of Toxoplasma gondii, a protozoan that sometimes ...

In a study of ethnically diverse people from Cameroon, the presence of a parasite infection was closely linked to the ...

Bacterial symbionts support their host's larvae and adult insects in different waysCredit: photo/©: Martin Kaltenpoth Insects that feed only on ...

The body's own bacteria and viruses influence diseases in amphibiansCredit: Dirk Schmeller Researchers from the Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and ...

Credit: WSU A compound discovered in the gills of wood-eating clams could be the solution to a group of parasites ...

Frankfurt researchers use ecological niche modelling to project the distribution of Chagas disease vectorsCredit: Dorian D. Dörge for Goethe University ...

A special issue of Austral Ecology is celebrating the legacy of an internationally renowned ecologist, whose work launched a momentum ...

Credit: © 2020 Amit Subudhi The parasites responsible for malaria seem to march to their own beat. The mystery behind ...

Credit: Angelina Tittmann, IGB When a lake is covered with green scums during a warm summer, cyanobacteria - often called ...

Credit: Ty Roach Though corals worldwide are threatened due to climate change and local stressors, the front lines of the ...

UMass Amherst researcher and team see more risk of bed bugs in poorer, crowded urban areasCredit: Charles Kremenak AMHERST, Mass. ...

A new study shows that these vesicles promote parasite adhesion to spleen cellsCredit: del Portillo Plasmodium vivax is the most ...

Development and validation of serological markers for detecting recent Plasmodium vivax infectionCredit: Ehime University Plasmodium vivax is the most widespread ...

Unique long-term videos show the bee nursery in the hiveCredit: Paul Siefert/Bee Research Institute Oberursel/Goethe University Frankfurt A newly developed ...

Study of Caribbean lobsters sheds light on disease and fragile ecosystemsCredit: Charlotte Eve Davies/Swansea University Virus prevalence associated with habitat: ...

Credit: College of Science CLEMSON, South Carolina - Clemson University scientists have taken another step forward in their quest to ...

Credit: Derek Hennen While many of us use social media to be tickled silly by cat videos or wowed by ...