Host manipulation by parasites encompasses a range of strategies whereby parasitic organisms induce alterations in the physiology, behaviour, or morphology of their hosts to enhance their own ...

Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal ...

A common parasite expands across species by abandoning sex, boosting short-term spread while risking long-term collapse.

If vitamin C stops cancer in its tracks, and being deficient in it can cause scurvy — the disease long associated with ...

A microscopic parasite that can live for decades in the human brain infects an estimated one-third of the world's population ...

Balanophora shed one third of its genes as it evolved into a streamlined parasitic plant -- an extreme degree of genome shrinkage even among parasites. Along the way this subtropical plant developed ...

Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhoea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal species, offering new insights into how parasitic infections emerge and ...

Researchers found that an asexual lineage of Giardia can infect more host species than sexual strains by bypassing genetic ...