BugBitten

War of the Worms

27/03/2020 Daniel Parsons

In a caste system similar to some social insects, larval stages of some parasitic trematodes are allocated to be soldiers to defend the colony when under invasion. A… Read more »

Biology

Sticking it to invasive Aedes mosquitoes

24/03/2020 Clare Strode

The global trade in used tyres is a major factor responsible for introductions of Aedes invasive mosquitoes. Clare Strode tells us more about an idea for a low-cost,… Read more »

BiologyDeveloping WorldHealth

Sparganosis: a rare disease prevalent in China?

20/03/2020 Cara Macfarlane

Sparganosis is a parasitic disease affecting humans. A recent study in China investigated the prevalence and type of sparganum infection in a second intermediate… Read more »

BiologyHealthOpen Access

How the global response to river blindness gained pace

17/03/2020 Louise Hamill

Dr. Louise Hamill tells us more about the progress she has witnessed in the fight to control, and eventually eliminate, river… Read more »

Teasing apart the impact of multiple parasites within a single host

13/03/2020 Christina Faust

New methods have been developed to better understand the impact parasites have on each other when they infect the same hosts.

Hybrid speciation in the Culex pipiens mosquito complex?

06/03/2020 Matthew Aardema

Mosquitoes are infamous for the challenges they present biologists attempting to classify distinct taxonomic groups. In a recent… Read more »

MICHELINdb – a new online platform for mining available data on worm-microbiome crosstalk

03/03/2020 Riccardo Scotti and Cinzia Cantacessi

Today, Riccardo Scotti and Cinzia Cantacessi discuss the 'MICrobiome HELminth INteractions database' (MICHELINdb), an online… Read more »

Electrocuting mosquitoes: a new hope for monitoring dengue vectors?

28/02/2020 Leonardo Ortega-López

The Mosquito Electrocuting Trap (MET) for collection of mosquito populations that transmit dengue virus was recently tested for… Read more »

Sibling-species complexes and implications in malaria vector control

21/02/2020 Vas Dev and Sylvie Manguin

Molecular taxonomy has added significantly to our knowledge in insect evolutionary biology and phylogenetic relationships. An… Read more »

Mobilizing research to defeat Neglected Tropical Diseases: A World NTD Day special

30/01/2020 Anouk Gouvras

For World NTD Day we highlight how research and technological development are cornerstones to the global effort to eliminate NTDs… Read more »