Head lice, fleas and tapeworms have been humanity’s companions throughout our evolutionary history. Yet, the greatest ...

The Creature That Gave Up Parasitism for … Wait, What? It’s a mystery wrapped in a riddle wrapped in a kidney. By Ed Yong. Mary Beth Saffo, Ph.D / PNAS. July 26, 2022. Share. Save.

Such brood parasitism has now also been observed in the insect world in tiny organisms called mites. Generally, brood parasitism takes a toll on the host and benefits the parasite. However, in certain ...

“Sexual parasitism is thought to be advantageous to inhabiting the deep sea, which is Earth’s largest and most homogonous habitat,” he said. “Once individuals find a mate in that vast expanse, ...

Many animal species add their eggs to the brood of other species to benefit from the latter’s brood care. This is called brood parasitism. Researchers recently studied brood parasitism in two ...

In some orchids, photosynthesis is out and parasitism is in. Instead of making food from sunlight, some of these plants have become parasitic and primarily suck nutrients out of the fungi in their ...

This one-of-a-kind example of sexual parasitism recently caught the curiosity of medical researchers. For most vertebrates, a merging like this would provoke a harmful, even fatal, immune response ...

Parasitism at Hydrothermal Vents. Dr. M February 13, 2024 No Comments. A post in a nightmare fueled lifestyle in a nightmarish hell scape…or a nice story of parasitic nematodes find in fishes at ...

Members of the vertebrate group including anglerfishes are unique in possessing a characteristic known as sexual parasitism, in which males temporarily attach or permanently fuse with females to mate.

Spiders may benefit from having fewer predators in urban towns and cities, a new study by researchers from Ben-Gurion University shows. The research team compared egg sac parasitism in the urban ...