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A modern view of the evolution of virulence
(Revista De Saude PublicaSao PauloBrasil, 1995)
Coevolutionary arms race between a specialist brood parasite, the Screaming Cowbird, and its host, the Grayish Baywing
(Springer, 2019-10)
Interspecific brood parasites exploit the parental care of host species. This exploitation entails fitness costs for the hosts, which favor the evolution of antiparasitic defenses. Host defenses select for counter-defenses ...
ATPe dynamics in protozoan parasites. Adapt or Perish
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2018-12-27)
In most animals, transient increases of extracellular ATP (ATPe) are used for physiological signaling or as a danger signal in pathological conditions. ATPe dynamics are controlled by ATP release from viable cells and cell ...
Parasitism, the diversity of life, and paleoparasitology
(Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz., 2019)
Parasites or cohabitants: cruel omnipresent usurpers or creative “Eminences Grises”?
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2015)
Single parenchymal brain cysticercus: Relationship between age of patients and evolutive stage of parasites
(Taylor and Francis, 2012)
Background: A recent hypothesis suggested that in many cases cysticercal granulomas represent recently established Taenia solium metacestodes rapidly destroyed by the host's immune system. Here, we attempted to determine ...