This is not the first study to observe behavioral adjustments in animals exposed to external parasites. Researchers have found that parasitism also affects the sleep patterns of bats and birds.

Malaria parasites undergo an extensive metamorphosis after invasion of erythrocytes. This induces an increase in the surface area of the parasite, a change to an amoeboid shape and requires the ...

The study sheds new light on how the Chagas Disease parasite invades human cells—a crucial step towards developing effective treatments for this neglected tropical disease. Chagas Disease ...

I'm also worried about internal parasites, which I might not see, yet they are eating up my animals internally. I would greatly appreciate any basic principles of internal and external parasite ...