Drivers of aquatic zoosporic parasites in natural and artificial environments - Aquatic Sciences This review, based on more than 500 scientific studies published between 1880 and 2025, summarises current knowledge on the complex relationships between aquatic zoosporic parasites (AZP) and their ho...

📢 New Publication!
What drives zoosporic parasites in aquatic systems?
Our new paper "Drivers of aquatic zoosporic parasites in natural and artificial environments" is out now!
Read more here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#AquaticScience #Parasites #Microbiology #COSTaction #ParAqua

ParAqua Grantees Conference Abstracts Booklet Abstracts of talks presented at ParAqua Grantees Conference held in Zagreb (Croatia), 1-2 September 2025

Our #COST Action #ParAqua Grantees Conference Abstracts Booklet is published. 😁
Check it here 👇

#COSTactions #ZoosporicParasites #AlgaeBiotech

preprints.arphahub.com/article/1778...

Phytoplankton Under Pressure: Temperature, Precipitation and Cyanobacterial Blooms as Drivers of Chytrid Infections Chytrid parasites of phytoplankton infect a wide range of species, including green algae, diatoms, and cyanobacteria. Infection patterns varied, indicating that chytrid occurrence is highly dynamic i...

The scientific article with the results of our #COST Action #ParAqua member Martyna Budziak STSM is now published in Environmental Microbiology. Click and check it below 👇
#COSTActions #ZoosporicParasites #AlgalBiotech

enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Our #COST Action #ParAqua members recently participated at the 18th Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecology - SAME18 in Barcelona 😊
Check the postcard that they've sent to us 📸

The video produced during the #ParAqua meeting in Zagreb is online!! many thanks again to all the contributors :)
#COSTActions #ZoosporicParasites #AlageBiotech

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzIP...

#ParAqua members presented our special issue in Aquatic Ecology (link.springer.com/collections/...). You can see Gianluca Corno, who was amazed!!
#COSTaction #ZoosporicParasite #AlgaBiotech

Pietro Marchese presenting #COST ParAqua STSM results at SAME18 Conference.

#ParAqua #COSTactions #CA20125 #ParAqua #ZoosporicParasites #STSM

Laura Garzoli presenting #COST ParAqua STSM results and ParAqua special Issue on "Zoosporic Parasites of Primary Producers in Aquatic Systems" in Aquatic Ecology at the 18th SAME (Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecogy) conference.
#COST #COSTactions #CA20125 #ParAqua #ZoosporicParasites

At the first day of the 18th SAME (Symposium on Aquatic Microbial Ecogy) activities of our #COST action #ParAqua attracted attention. ParAqua members Laura, Albert, Silke and Caio presented their works and ParAqua results this week in Barcelona.
#COSTaction #STSM #YRIG

ParAqua Newsletter - ParAqua - COST ACTION CA20125 Here you can download all the previous issues of the ParAqua Newsletter

New #COST Action #ParAqua is out. Check out our latest activities 👇
paraqua-cost.eu/news/paraqua...

Victoria Prins, a #Paraqua member, was awarded third place for best oral presentation about FunAqua project at the 14th Symposium for European Freshwater Sciences (SEFS14), held in Bolu, Türkiye from 20–25 July 2025. Congratulations Victoria!🎉✨
#COST #ParAqua #FunAqua

👏 The #ParAqua #COSTAction for applications for #zoosporic #parasites in #aquatic #ecosystems shares 12 project outcomes with the world!

📚 See their #openscience collection: doi.org/10.3897/rio...., incl. workshop reports, research poster, conference abstracts booklet & software management plan!

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New episode of the #COST Action #ParAqua Podcast is out!

In this 12th episode of the ParAqua Podcast Joe speaks to Prof Kevin Lafferty. You can listen more about the influence of parasites on food webs and challenges of treating outbreaks of neglected tropical parasites.
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Phytoplankton Under Pressure - The Role of Environmental Drivers in Parasitism Fungal parasitism is attracting growing attention in phytoplankton ecology because of its outstanding importance for aquatic food webs and energy cycling. However, relatively few studies have addresse...

Nice contribution of our young Member Martyna Budziak at the Polish Phycological Conference presenting the results of her STSM published in RIO. Awarded first prize in the conference’s competition 🤩
preprints.arphahub.com/article/1609...
#PArAqua #COSTAction #AlgalBiotech

ParAquaSeq, a Database of Ecologically Annotated rRNA Sequences Covering Zoosporic Parasites Infecting Aquatic Primary Producers in Natural and Industrial Systems Amplicon sequencing tools such as metabarcoding are commonly used for thorough characterisation of microbial diversity in natural samples. They mostly rely on the amplification of conserved universal...

This very nice collaborative work led by WG1 is now available Open Access
doi.org/10.1111/1755...

#PArAqua #COSTActions #AlgalBiotech #Algae #ZoosporicParasites

📚 The #ParAqua #COSTAction team added to their #openscience project collection: doi.org/10.3897/rio.... a poster presenting the 1st database to centralise & harmonise data on #zoosporic #parasites of #algae by integrating observations, #NCBI genetic data & literature.

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🆕 The #abstracts booklet from the #ParAqua #COSTAction conference held last April was added to the project's dedicated #openscience outcomes collection: doi.org/10.3897/rio.....

👇 With our intergration with #ARPHA #Preprints, the collection shares the original PDF file.