Horsehair worms can grow up to a foot long and manipulate host insects — and sometimes show up in toilets — but are harmless ...

Research has identified the first inter-species signaling pathway between an arthropod parasite and host, where molecules in the blood of a host animal triggers the immunity and development of a ...

The aim of his book is to give an account of the helminth and arthropod parasites of domestic animals and, at the same time, to stress those practical aspects of the subject most useful to the ...

They have affected the distribution patterns of parasites and arthropod vectors, leading to foreign pathogens in new geographical areas. This incidence could eventually pose severe threats to ...

Parasites aren’t particularly associated with branches of the tree with more or fewer twigs.” But some groups seem to be especially prone to evolving parasitism. The arthropods—the hard ...

Although blood meal proteome analysis is described for a tick parasite, it can be adapted to analyze other hematophagous arthropods with similar success. Transport the collected tick samples to ...

The Terrestrial Parasite Tracker will be available through the Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network, or SCAN. A&M’s department of wildlife and fisheries sciences and department of ...

and the treatment shows promise against bed bugs and other arthropod parasites. Tu — the first person from China to win a medicine Nobel — scoured records of ancient Chinese therapies in the ...

Research led by a University of Maryland team has identified the first inter-species signaling pathway between an arthropod parasite and host, where molecules in the blood of a host animal ...