Quarter of a million host-parasite records, detailing helminth parasites their associated host species and locality, extracted from 28,000 references. In 1922 Dr H.A. Baylis, then head of what today ...

The two species of African rhinoceros are conservation icons. Large, charismatic, and vitally important for their ecosystems, ...

Now, in a study published Friday (July 15) in Cell Metabolism, researchers describe the complicated tug-of-war between host and parasite that appears to explain malaria-associated hypoglycemia.

Many live their lives secretively, in intimate contact with their host, but invisible to the outside world. With some notable exceptions (e.g., tapeworms), parasites also tend to be very small.

The resulting coevolutionary arms race includes sophisticated defenses by hosts and escalating tools of exploitation by parasites. For the parasite, benefits include increased fecundity due to ...

“It's really hard to separate host cell metabolism from parasite metabolism,” said Laura Knoll, a parasitologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and study coauthor. To overcome this, the team ...