29 Jun 2021

Australia has the world’s worst track record for wiping out mammals, with 34 species declared extinct since European colonisation. But today, we bring some...

8 Apr 2021

We met Professor Nicotra in the Snowy Mountains and asked what she learned from 2020.

18 Mar 2021

In healthy populations, the song of regent honeyeaters is complex and long. But where the population is very small, the song is sadly diminished.

16 Aug 2020

Striving toward malaria eradication: Development of a single drug to kill malaria parasites and the mosquitoes that transmit them.

11 Aug 2020

Jeremy Debrulle discusses (Torchin et al. 2003) and the question of what role do parasites actually play in regulating and stabilising populations?

11 Aug 2020

Studies have shown that some parasites can control their hosts, manipulating their behaviour often to the benefit of the parasites.

10 Aug 2020

Tunan (Nicole) Yu discusses Horwitz and Wilcox (2005) and taking a multi-faceted view towards parasites to manage disease risk.

7 Aug 2020

"How could I have been so naive to think that parasites would not have an intrinsic role to play in every ecosystem considering the fundamentals of...

7 Aug 2020

Parasites have a crucial role in the earth’s ecosystem and are often left out of the climate change conversation. A blog post by Margot Schneider

7 Aug 2020

Why is the Varroa Mite so virulent considering they are completely reliant on their bee hosts for transport, reproduction and as their sole food source?

5 Aug 2020

"A parasite an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense...

5 Aug 2020

Treatments for human afflictions can be found in the most obscure places and in the strangest creatures.