Inter-specific interactions between parasites impact on parasite intra-host dynamics, host
health, and disease management. Identifying and understanding interaction mechanisms in …

Heterogeneous exposure to parasites may contribute to host species differentiation. Hosts
often harbour multiple parasite species which may interact and thus modify each other's …

Complex life cycles are common in free-living and parasitic organisms alike. The adaptive
decoupling hypothesis postulates that separate life cycle stages have a degree of …

Parasites directly and indirectly influence the important interactions among hosts such as
competition and predation through modifications of behaviour, reproduction and survival …

Resource quality can have conflicting effects on the spread of disease. High‐quality
resources could hinder disease spread by promoting host immune function. Alternatively …

Two new species of the microphallid genus Maritrema (Maritrema) Nicoll, 1907 are
described from freshwaters in the South Island of New Zealand. Maritrema deblocki n. sp …

Abstract Effects of parasites on individual hosts can eventually translate to impacts on host
communities. In particular, parasitism can differentially affect host fitness among sympatric …

Despite their important ecological role, questions remain on mechanisms structuring
parasite assemblages. We present an endemic and species‐poor parasite–host system of …

As a novel arboreal parasite, New Zealand's largest endemic moth, Aenetus virescens, is a
biological oddity. With arguably the most unusual lepidopteran life history on earth, larvae …

Parasites produce from just a few to many eggs of variable size, but our understanding of the
factors driving variation in these two life history traits at the intraspecific level is still very …