Behavior in eusocial insects likely reflects a long history of selection imposed by parasites and pathogens because the conditions of group living often favor the transmission of infection among ...

HYDERABAD: A genomic study by CSIR-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) and Indian Institute of Science Education ...

Today, 150 years after Darwin’s epochal “On the Origin of Species,” many questions about the molecular basis of evolution are still waiting for answers. How are signaling pathways changed by genes and ...

Conspecific brood parasitism (CBP), whereby females lay eggs in the nests of other conspecifics, occurs in over 200 species of birds. As an alternative tactic to typical nesting, CBP expands and ...

Biologists have demonstrated that 'evolutionary experience' as well as learning protects cichlid fish from the brood parasitism practiced by the African cuckoo catfish. There are other animals besides ...

One of the most interesting topics discussed in my Ornithology class was about the “con artists” found in nature… Brood parasitism occurs when a female bird (the parasite) lays her eggs in the nest of ...

A groundbreaking genomic study has shed new light on the complex evolutionary history of mites and ticks, revealing how parasitism emerged and diversified over more than 100 million years.

IN these lectures the late Prof. Theobald Smith reviewed the knowledge and experience of nearly fifty years of fruitful devotion to research on infective disease in man and animals. The book contains ...

The blood fluke may be the ultimate parasite. This ingenious flatworm comes of age inside a tiny snail host before entering its real host—humans—directly through the skin and burrowing into the ...

Mites and ticks are as diverse as they are mysterious. They may look like insects, but they actually belong to the broader ...