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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).
Nasonia ovipositing red eye
 

**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)

moth
 

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.
fig wasps

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.

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