Political, climatic, and socio-economic changes related to technology, transportation, and food security have positively and negatively impacted society. They have affected the distribution patterns ...

Congrats to Angela and Colleagues for their article recently accepted to the journal Parasites and Vectors. The article titled “Survey of Haemosporidian Parasite Infections in an Endangered High ...

Kansas State University researchers and collaborators are creating a buzz in the world of mosquito-borne virus research with a new study on Japanese encephalitis virus, which can infect humans and ...

Zoonotic diseases, like COVID-19, malaria, and rabies, are illnesses that can spread from animals to people and vice versa.

The verdict is in! Scientists have cleared mosquitoes of any responsibility in the spread of Lyme disease, and say ticks are ...

MiDOG has contributed a large share of high-quality, publicly available parasite genomes. Currently, 50% of the thorny-headed ...

Beccy holds a PhD in Biological Science, a Master’s in Molecular Biology of Parasites and Disease Vectors, and a Bachelor’s in Human Biology and Forensic Science. Beccy holds a PhD in Biological ...

Introduction: The world of bats / Heinz Mehlhorn -- Bats: a glimpse on their astonishing morphology and lifestyle / Volker Walldorf and Heinz Mehlhorn -- Bats as potential reservoir hosts for ...

I’m broadly interested in the interactions that hosts have with their parasites, particularly in the face of ongoing host hybridization. I look for a variety of different parasites in a variety of ...