Every year, billions of animals migrate across the globe, carrying parasites with them and encountering parasites through their travels. Now, a team of researchers has discovered that animals known to ...

Animals, like plants, can build tolerance to infections at a genetic level, and these findings could provide a better understanding of the epidemiology and evolution of infectious disease, according ...

Every year, billions of animals migrate across the globe, carrying parasites with them and encountering parasites through their travels. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Georgia's Odum ...

Conservation managers who try to keep members of endangered animal species parasite-free are well-intentioned but this approach is misguided, according to a new research. Conservation managers who try ...

When a parasite infects a host, it can manipulate host behavior, which may help spread the parasite to new hosts, or enable the parasite to complete its life cycle. Parasitic worms known as hairworms ...

It turns out that mandrills, a type of Old World monkey, behave similarly to humans in that they try to avoid sick friends whenever possible to avoid the transmission of infections and diseases. While ...

THIS volume gives an account of the principal Protozoa which produce disease in man and in animals associated with man, e.g. domestic animals, game, bees, etc. As the book is intended to be of service ...

Scientists often attribute the tendency of male mammals to die earlier than females to hunting, fighting for mates, and other risky behaviors that the males engage in. In the Sept. 20 Science, however ...

Athens, Ga. - Every year, billions of animals migrate across the globe, carrying parasites with them and encountering parasites through their travels. Now, a team of researchers at the University of ...

Conservation managers who try to keep members of endangered animal species parasite-free are well-intentioned but this approach is misguided, according to a new research paper co-authored by a ...