British marine biologist and photographer Richard Smith focuses his work on the ocean’s tiniest and weirdest creatures.

Metazoan parasites, including various types of worms and flatworms, are common in freshwater fish species and can significantly impact fish health and aquaculture. Recent research has focused on ...

Recent research has focused on understanding the diversity, transmission, and ecological impacts of these parasites, as well as their interactions with environmental factors and host species.

Brush-tailed bettongs once inhabited more than 60% of mainland Australia, but the species’ population size shrank by 90% ...

It's all connected: coronaviruses and other emerging infectious diseases, loss of biodiversity, and destruction of the ...

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies. The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant ...

A new study from the Kowalinski group at EMBL Grenoble characterized the structure of an important trypanosomal protein ...

Animal parasitic disease has characteristics of easy infection and transmission diversity, this makes it to become a major disease to wildlife. Although ...

Jan. 21, 2025 — Trypanosomes are parasites that cause sleeping sickness, Chagas disease, and various animal diseases. Diagnosis and treatment remain complex and no effective vaccine has been ...

Crickets are parasites—for some ant colonies. The species of ant crickets from the Myrmecophilus genus can infiltrate ant colonies, despite the potentially lethal defences that ants have ...