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Category: Parasites

This tongue-eating louse has parasitised its host, a small fish. The parasite makes the fish’s tongue fall off, then replaces the tongue with its own body. ijimino / shutterstock

Parasites are ecological dark matter – and they need protecting

October 1, 2025 goodmanlab

How should we best support conservation of endangered parasites? Timothy Brown, University of Leeds; Andrew Cunningham, Zoological Society of London, and Simon Goodman, University of

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Baking your study species & viva cakes

March 9, 2017 goodmanlab

A developing tradition for biology PhD vivas is to celebrate the successful outcome with exquisitely rendered cake representations of the candidate’s study species. This week

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Tortoise poo highlights the need to conserve parasite communities as well as their hosts

December 29, 2015 goodmanlab

For most people diseases and parasites are only seen as something to be eradicated because of their negative impacts on the health and well being

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  • Developing policy to address marine mammal bycatch in illegal fisheries
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