Predation, herbivory, and parasitism are specific types of antagonistic interactions. In predation, one organism kills and consumes another. Predation provides energy to prolong the life and ...

Most orchid species have a symbiotic relationship with the natural fungi found in their roots. The plants provide the fungi with sugar through photosynthesis and the orchids receive important water ...

However, the small size of these wasps and the challenges of rearing them have made the molecular mechanisms of parasitism difficult to decipher. Focusing on the endoparasitoid wasp A. japonica ...

The social parasitism that I address here is restricted to the ants that form mixed species nests and depend on labor provided by the host species workers. These nests typically have two or more ...

When a male anglerfish finds his mate in the pitch-black expanse of the deep sea, he uses his sharp teeth to latch onto her ...

Emerging data from a recent study reveal that the frequent misidentification of spurious parasites in canine feces may signal ...

She then swallows one of the eggs that’s been laid there and lays one of her own—a behavior known as brood parasitism. Sometimes potential victims revolt. The parents that inhabit the nest may ...

We are describing and documenting patterns of copepod species to determine how their diversity evolves. Copepods are one of the most abundant forms of life on Earth. They are dominant in the community ...

Management of parasitism is challenging, and very few resistance genes have been cloned and characterized in plants. To identify key genes that confer resistance to broomrapes, the researchers ...