The huge diversity within the parasitic animals creates a challenge for biologists to describe and catalogue them. Recent developments in using DNA to identify separate species and to investigate the relationship between groups at various taxonomic scales has been enormously useful to parasitologists, as many parasites are highly degenerate, disguising relationships between species.

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See also

• Important publications in parasitology
• Parasitologists

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External links

• Online lectures in parasitology University of South Carolina
• American Society of Parasitologists
• ARC-NHMRC Research Network for Parasitology
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• e-Parasite - Parasitologists Online Community