2 025 年 4 月，浙江大学陈学新教授团队在美国科学院院刊（ Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , PNAS ）上在线发表了题为 “ A symbiotic gene stimulates aggressive behavior favoring the ...

Current research is mainly concerned with two areas: host choice and nutritional ecology. Most species of parasitoids discriminate between unparasitized and previously parasitized hosts and avoid ...

Iridoid glycosides can deter deer and other herbivores, but the researchers' earlier studies showed the compounds have a medicinal effect on parasitized bees by reducing their parasite load.

This protozoan, which infects a wide range of species including humans, can only reproduce in felines, which become infected by ingesting a parasitized prey. Studies on mice have shown that this ...

Egg masses of stink bugs collected from plant structures were observed daily until emergence of either parasitoids or bugs. Stink bugs were parasitized by 8 species of egg parasitoids: Trissolcus ...

A nematode parasite causes ants to look like berries that birds like, putting ants on the diet and helping to spread the parasite. Cynthia Graber reports. If you're enjoying this article, consider ...

"While it is not uncommon to encounter insects parasitized by 'zombie' fungi in the wild, it is a rarity to witness large spiders succumbing to these fungal conquerors," García-Roa wrote in a BMC ...

NOTE: This post has been updated to clarify Leif Richardson's university affiliation. Image: bumblebee visiting a turtlehead, courtesy of Leif Richardson. Richardson, L., Bowers, M., & Irwin, R. (2015 ...

The scientists believe that more research into the parasitized bees and their behavior could yield new insights into the devastating disorder. You may like 'The parasite was in the driver's seat ...