More than a century of preserved fish specimens offer a rare glimpse into long-term trends in parasite populations. New research from the University of Washington shows that fish parasites plummeted ...

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 ...

This provided photo shows monogenean worms (Microcotyle sebastis) that were dissected from the gills of a preserved copper rockfish specimen from the University of Washington Fish Collection at the ...

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.

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