With victims numbering in the millions, malaria is an infectious disease caused by the bite of a mosquito carrying the ...

When we think parasites, we often think of illness, disease, and discomfort. But did you know some of them can actually be ...

Trypanosomatids are parasites that can result in more than 1 billion potentially fatal infections per year globally. In ...

Experts discovered an unusual form of regicide in which a parasitic ant queen tricks workers in a colony into turning on ...

Some ants kill the queens of another species and take over their colonies, but we now know at least one species gets workers ...

This pattern deviated from previously known forms of parasitism in ant colonies, which typically had the invading queen ...

UC Davis nematologists, including Valerie Williamson, professor emerita in the Department of Plant Pathology, and associate ...

Newly mated parasitic queen ants invade colonies and spray their victims with a chemical irritant that provokes the workers to kill their mother.

Professor Gideon Wasserberg at UNC Greensboro has been awarded a prestigious $3.7 million National Institutes of Health R01 ...

New research shows that it's possible to end the practice of using people as 'human bait' to catch and test the blackflies ...