Taxis orientation is common in microorganisms, and it provides feasible strategies to
operate active colloids as small‐scale robots. Collective taxes involve numerous units that …

Biological materials such as extracellular matrix scaffolds, cancer cells, and tissues are often
assumed to respond elastically for simplicity; the viscoelastic response is quite commonly …

Ant-infecting Ophiocordyceps fungi are globally distributed, host manipulating, specialist
parasites that drive aberrant behaviors in infected ants, at a lethal cost to the host. An …

Produced amidst the still rippling effects of a pandemic and as the world experiences the
increasing burden of global warming and a rapidly changing biosphere, the second edition …

The current drug treatments against protozoan parasitic diseases including Chagas,
malaria, leishmaniasis, and toxoplasmosis represent good examples of drug resistance …

In an era where some find fake news around every corner, the use of sensationalism has
inevitably found its way into the scientific literature. This is especially the case for host …

Parasites are some of the most abundant, diverse, and ecologically important organisms on
the planet. Similarly, spiders are diverse, abundant, and play important roles in many …

Parasite infections are increasingly reported to change the microbiome of the parasitized
hosts, while parasites bring their own microbes to what can be a multi-dimensional …

Host organisms show altered phenotypic reactions when parasitised, some of which result
from adaptive host manipulation, a phenomenon that has long been debated. Here, we …

Many parasites have evolved strategies to exploit host behaviour for successful
transmission. Ophiocordyceps manipulations of carpenter ant behaviour represent an …