I define parasites as organisms that live in or on a host and cause that host a fitness class basically. They take energy from their host, and that means that the term parasite encompasses everything ...

When Chelsea Wood was a child, she would often collect Periwinkle snails on the shores of Long Island. “I used to pluck them off the rocks and put them in buckets and keep them as pets and then ...

Sandra Binning is a member of the Groupe de recherche interuniversitaire en limnologie (GRIL) and Ressources Aquatiques Québec (RAQ) and has received funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering ...

Parasites. Cause of terrible diseases. Big on the yuck-factor. It’s easy to think of them as doing no good. “The public perception … when you use the word ‘parasite’ is that it’s bad,” says Nico Smit.