Long considered a freewheeling loner, the Trypanosoma brucei parasite responsible for African sleeping sickness has revealed a totally unexpected social side, opening a potential chink in the behavioral armor of this and other supposedly solitary human parasites.

A termite entombed for 100 million years has revealed the oldest example ever found of animals and microorganisms working together, a U.S.

The analysis of a termite entombed for 100 million years in an ancient piece of amber has revealed the oldest example of "mutualism" ever discovered between an animal and microorganism

Abstract Staurojoenina assimilis Kirby, a hindgut hypermastigote parabasalid symbiont in two kalotermitids (Neotermes mona St. John, US Virgin Islands and N. jouteli Puerto Rico) was studied live and by electron microscopy.

In the debate among American biologists, especially Carl R.