Necromeny (Ecology 🏞️)
Necromeny is a symbiotic relationship where an animal infects a host and waits inside its body until its death, at which point it develops and completes its life-cycle on the cadaver, feeding on the decaying matter and the subsequent bacterial growth. As the necromenic animal benefits from the relationship while the host is unharmed, it is an example of commensalism....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necromeny
#Necromeny #Ecology #Parasitism #Parasitology #DiseaseEcology
Companion Animal Parasite Council (Parasitology 🧬)
The Companion Animal Parasite Council is a non-profit organization composed of practicing veterinarians, academic veterinary parasitologists, veterinary technicians, state public health veterinarians, and staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who are dedicated to reducing the numbers of parasites in d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion_Animal_Parasite_Council
Emery's rule (Parasitology 🧬)
Emery's rule is the trend of social parasites to be parasites to species or genera they are closely related to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emery's_rule
#EmerySRule #Parasitology #1909InBiology #BiologicalRules #1909Introductions
Cached (mostly) US Kindle giveaway on bsky: 10 copies of each book in Mira Grant's Parasitology trilogy (Parasite, Symbiont, and Chimera) over at https://bsky.app/profile/kithrup.bsky.social/post/3lor32j7rgc2p
A lot of people don't know this, but it turns out that Mira Grant is actually a pseudonym of @seananmcguire!
#KindleBookGiveaway #SeananMcGuire #MiraGrant #Parasitology #Parasite #Symbiont #Chimera
OTD in 2024, Robert F Kennedy Jr announced that doctors found a dead worm in his brain https://toilet-guru.com/robert-f-kennedy.html?s=mb #parasitology #politics #RFKJR
OTD in 2024, Robert F Kennedy Jr announced that doctors found a dead worm in his brain https://toilet-guru.com/robert-f-kennedy.html?s=mb #parasitology #politics #RFKJR
OTD in 2024, Robert F Kennedy Jr announced that doctors found a dead worm in his brain https://toilet-guru.com/robert-f-kennedy.html?s=mb #parasitology #politics #RFKJR
Sterile insect technique (Parasitology 🧬)
The sterile insect technique is a method of biological insect control, whereby overwhelming numbers of sterile insects are released into the wild. The released insects are preferably male, as this is more cost-effective and the females may in some situations cause damage by laying eggs in the crop, or, in the case...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterile_insect_technique
#SterileInsectTechnique #Infertility #Parasitology #InsectControl #InsectRearing
'Parasite' by EDP Sciences is an international #OpenAccess, peer-reviewed, online journal publishing high-quality papers on all aspects of human and animal #Parasitology: https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/parasite
Postdoctoral Fellow - Moltke Lab
University of Washington
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-washington-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-moltke-lab/?feed_id=94726
#allergies #asthma #immunology #mucosal_immunology #parasitology #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-washington-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-moltke-lab/?feed_id=94726
'Interaction between mouse macrophages and protoscolex of Echinococcus granulosus in vitro' - a #Research article in the Chinese Journal of #Parasitology and #ParasiticDiseases on #ScienceOpen: https://www.scienceopen.com/document?vid=9aa37b37-9af7-4e26-9cdd-cadeeca86c13
The 'Chinese Journal of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases' is an academic journal focused on #Parasitology and #ParasiticDiseases in China, published by the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases (NIPD), the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), and sponsored by the National Disease Control and Prevention Administration, P. R. China: https://www.scienceopen.com/collection/fde4ca5a-d9bd-434c-95fb-850d743b60ee
Archaeoparasitology (Parasitology 🧬)
Archaeoparasitology, a multi-disciplinary field within paleopathology, is the study of parasites in archaeological contexts. It includes studies of the protozoan and metazoan parasites of humans in the past, as well as parasites which may have affected past human societies, such as those infesting domesticated animals. Reinhard suggested that the ...
Postdoctoral Fellow - Moltke Lab
University of Washington
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-washington-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-moltke-lab/?feed_id=94049
#allergies #asthma #immunology #mucosal_immunology #parasitology #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-washington-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-moltke-lab/?feed_id=94049
Postdoctoral Fellow - Moltke Lab
University of Washington
See the full job description on jobRxiv: https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-washington-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-moltke-lab/?feed_id=93874
#allergies #asthma #immunology #mucosal_immunology #parasitology #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-washington-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-moltke-lab/?feed_id=93874
Sylvatic cycle (Parasitology 🧬)
The sylvatic cycle, also enzootic or sylvatic transmission cycle, is a portion of the natural transmission cycle of a pathogen. Sylvatic refers to the occurrence of a subject in or affecting wild animals. The sylvatic cycle is the fraction of the pathogen population's lifespan spent cycling between wild animals and vectors. Humans are usually an incidental or dead-end ho...
Postdoctoral Fellow - Moltke Lab
University of Washington
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#allergies #asthma #immunology #mucosal_immunology #parasitology #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-washington-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-moltke-lab/?feed_id=93524
Postdoctoral Fellow - Moltke Lab
University of Washington
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#allergies #asthma #immunology #mucosal_immunology #parasitology #ScienceJobs #hiring #research
https://jobrxiv.org/job/university-of-washington-27778-postdoctoral-fellow-moltke-lab/?feed_id=93244
@An0n @Alice I was chuffed to learn that mosquito birth control has been deployed! Ex: https://www.civilbeat.org/2023/04/historic-effort-to-save-hawaii-forest-birds-with-mosquito-birth-control-hurdles-forward/
I won't be surprised if Christofascist DOGE script kiddies kill EPA funding to these pilot programs via bad search & replace.
(In all seriousness, there are several kinds of mosquito control programs that utilize Wolbachia, all pretty cool, c.f. https://www.worldmosquitoprogram.org/en/learn/how-our-method-compares .)
Farewell, Dickson Despommier.
He taught medical #parasitology and studied an important human #parasite, Trichinella Spiralis.
He co-authored the textbook, Parasitic Diseases, and wrote West Nile Story about the virus that invaded America in 1999.
https://archive.org/details/westnilestory00desp
On This Week in Parasitism, he taught me about organisms like Schistosoma, Ascaris, and Toxoplasma, and their importance for the larger ecosystem. I'll miss his voice telling us about the weather in New Jersey.
Dickson's work on Trichinella Spiralis
https://www.trichinella.org/home
