Protozoa

Malaria (Plasmodium) and related Apicomplexan parasites

Scanning electron micrograph of a Plasmodium falciparum infected erythrocyte forming a rosette,
a process associated with virulence in human malaria (Photo by David Ferguson).

 

Invertebrates

Nasonia vitripennis. (i) The classic 1980's photo by Jack Werren. (ii) A more recent photo (Stu West). (iii) The red eye mutant, which allows the behaviour of individuals in a group to be followed (Dave Shuker).

 

**Link to a more detailed picture guide of parasitoid life histories**

Click Here to Download a Quicktime movie of fighting between males in the parasitoid species Melittobia acasta

Helicoverpa (=Heliothis) armigera (Photo by Paul Cunningham)

 

Fig Wasps

Examples of Non-pollinating (top two) and pollinating (bottom two) fig wasps species
from a fig species in Papua New Guinea (Photo by George Weiblen).
The males of the species are on the left, and the females on the right.

Male of the non-pollinating species Sycoscaptor australis (Photo by James Cook).
Fighting between males and decapitation is common in this species.

A non-pollinating wasp laying its eggs from outside the fruit (Photo by George Weiblen)

 

Vertebrates

To be added.