Scientists in Australia have identified a parasite in game deer and feral pigs for the first time. Researchers at Charles Sturt University discovered the Sarcocystis species of parasite during their ...

Sarcocystis is an apicomplexan parasite group that employs a two‐host life cycle, with sexual reproduction occurring in the definitive host and asexual reproduction in the intermediate host. Recent ...

A study of tissue samples from 161 marine mammals that died between 2004 and 2009 in the Pacific Northwest reveals an association between severe illness and co-infection with two kinds of parasites ...

Here, we report a new species, Sarcocystis pantherophisi n. sp., with the Eastern rat snake (Pantherophis alleghaniensis) as natural definitive host and the interferon gamma gene knockout (KO) mouse ...

Talk about rice in Arkansas, and the relationship to ducks and duck hunting follows. A rice look-alike that hunters may discover often fuels calls to the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission’s biologists ...

Duck breast on rice is a popular winter meal in the home of many waterfowlers. But "rice breast" is less appetizing. Even the pristine trout in Lake Roosevelt can have little boogers in their meat ...

The Journal of Parasitology is the official publication of the American Society of Parasitologists (ASP). It has been in print continuously since 1914, when it was founded by Henry Baldwin Ward. The ...