It may be easy to assume then, that since parasites are generally inconspicuous, they play less important roles in community ecology than free-living organisms. Yet advances in the field of ...

A harmful and sometimes deadly parasite is on the rise, and it's been found in the US before. A study by Swiss scientists in Emerging Infectious Disease discovered a parasite found in foxes is on the ...

In a recent paper published in the Journal of Animal Ecology, Wood explores how such methodology could help researchers address ecological questions about not only fish but other aquatic taxa. The ...

While an abundance of parasites might seem like a bad thing, their absence actually signals trouble in the environment.

Researchers in the Amazon have discovered new genetic mechanisms in fish parasites that could lead to vaccines, potentially ...

Topics covered will include: parasite functional and taxonomic diversity, transmission routes, and virulence as well as strategies of host defense, mathematical models of disease, the effects of ...

Parasites called myxozoa infect fish populations ... Professor Edson Adriano, a parasitology expert from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology-UNIFESP, said: "The vast Amazon Basin ...