{"id":11291,"date":"2021-09-14T11:15:16","date_gmt":"2021-09-14T15:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/?p=11291"},"modified":"2026-02-23T15:51:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:51:46","slug":"prof-mark-forbes-explores-parasitism-and-its-evolutionary-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/2021\/prof-mark-forbes-explores-parasitism-and-its-evolutionary-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Mark Forbes Explores Parasitism and Its Evolutionary Consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Prof. Mark Forbes Explores Parasitism and Its Evolutionary Consequences\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Parasitism occurs when one species \u2014 the parasite \u2014 benefits from resources it takes from another, usually larger, host species to the detriment of host individuals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why some host individuals carry more parasites than others has intrigued biologists. These levels of parasitism are proxies for the amount of resources taken by parasites, which often results in costs to hosts: for example, lowered reproduction or survival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/parasites-and-their-hosts-are-in-an-arms-race-for-survival-with-evolutionary-consequences-159115\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parasitism occurs when one species \u2014 the parasite \u2014 benefits from resources it takes from another, usually larger, host species to the detriment of host individuals. Why some host individuals carry more parasites than others has intrigued biologists. These levels of parasitism are proxies for the amount of resources taken by parasites, which often results [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10576,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11292,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11291\/revisions\/11292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/biology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}