This blog post is provided by Satyajeet Gupta and Renee M Borges from the Centre for Ecological Sciences, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the article “Hopping on: Conspecific traveller density within a vehicle regulates parasitic hitchhiking between ephemeral microcosms“, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. Tiny organisms that are unable to move far by themselves or assisted by water … Continue reading Too many, too few, or empty: The number of passengers determines whether nematodes will hitchhike on a vehicle