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Oct. 10, 2020 —Using the model Orobanchaceae parasitic plant Phtheirospermum japonicum, scientists have discerned the molecular mechanisms underlying plant parasitism and cross-species grafting, pinpointing one ...
Apr. 5, 2022 —Like diseases affecting humans, parasites can wage a deadly evolutionary 'arms race' against their hosts. But can hosts and parasites upgrade their weapons at the same ...
Jan. 28, 2022 —Researchers have discovered a parasite present in seawater and which belongs to a primitive lineage; they have named it Txikispora philomaios. This organism will help to explain how multicellularity ...
May 11, 2022 —A new method blocks the protein regulation of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii and causes it to die off inside the host ...
July 25, 2023 —Lower parasitism and predation in urban habitats may contribute to the invasion success of brown widow spiders, according to new ...
Mar. 2, 2022 —Parasitic tapeworms have a complex life cycle moving from plankton to fish and then fish-eating birds. New research on how parasite resistance in threespine stickleback fish may lead to a better ...
Apr. 26, 2023 —Nature documentaries will tell you that lions, cheetahs, wolves and other top predators target the weakest or slowest animals and that this culling benefits prey herds, whether it's antelope in ...
Dec. 18, 2020 —The first cell atlas of an important life stage of Schistosoma mansoni, a parasitic worm that poses a risk to hundreds of millions of people each year, has been ...
Aug. 21, 2020 —New research finds that brood parasites living in more variable and unpredictable habitats tend to parasitize -- or squat and drop their eggs in -- the nests of a greater variety and number of ...
Feb. 15, 2022 —Temperature fluctuations such as heatwaves can have very different effects on infection rates and disease outcomes depending on the average background temperature, says a new ...