Parasite biodiversity
Parasite is a strategic, smart and prudent natural agent primarily created by nature to balance the energy dynamics of life in varied ecosystems on this earth although for us they mean noxious, irritating, annoying, pathogens and harmful agents. Parasite evolutionary history enables us to understand that nature has created every form of life on this planet with a reason and purpose to enrich the earth with diversity of species ecologically interlinked and mutually beneficial too. This ecological linkage overall balances and maintains the ecosystem functioning. Parasite is one such biological agent that has been entrusted with multiple ecological roles. Basically, parasite (either a macroparasite or a microparasite) which is the focus of this article is a biological organism which lives in or on the body surface of other living organism (different types of hosts) for shelter and to fulfil its metabolic and reproductive needs. As students of parasitology we are made to understand th...