The journal provides a medium for rapid publication of investigations of the molecular biology and biochemistry of parasitic protozoa and helminths and their interactions with both the definitive and intermediate host. The main subject areas covered are:
• the structure, biosynthesis, degradation, properties and function of DNA, RNA, proteins, lipids, carbohydrates and small molecular-weight substances
• intermediary metabolism and bioenergetics
• drug target characterization and the mode of action of antiparasitic drugs
• molecular and biochemical aspects of membrane structure and function
• host-parasite relationships that focus on the parasite, particularly as related to specific parasite molecules.
• analysis of genes and genome structure, function and expression
• analysis of variation in parasite populations relevant to genetic exchange, pathogenesis, drug and vaccine target characterization, and drug resistance.
• parasite protein trafficking, organelle biogenesis, and cellular structure especially with reference to the roles of specific molecules
• parasite programmed cell death, development, and cell division at the molecular level


Papers will only be accepted for publication if they fall within these areas, if they contain original and complete work of high scientific quality, and if they are well presented. Papers solely confirming the conserved functions of genes previously studied in other organisms will not be considered.
Additionally the following areas of work are better suited to other journals: 
• studies predominantly focused on the host response (e.g. immunology) 
• surveys reporting allele or strain frequencies in various regions 
• in silico modeling or computational work without biological experiments 
• surveys reporting allele or strain frequencies not linked to biological relevance (e.g., drug resistance, or pathogenesis) 

Editors
P.T. LoVerde
Dept. of Biochemistry and Pathology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center at San Antonio, Mail Code 7760, San Antonio, Texas, TX 78229-3900, USA Email P.T. LoVerde
K.R. Matthews
Inst. of Immunology and Infection Res., School of Bio. Sci., University of Edinburgh, Wst Mains Road, EH9 3JT, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Email K.R. Matthews
C. Doerig
Biomedical Sciences Cluster, School of Health and Biomedical Sciences, RMIT University, Bundoora, 3083, Victoria, Australia Email C. Doerig
Reviews and Special Content Editor
M. Ginger
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, England, UKPhone +44 1484 472106 Email M. Ginger
Editorial Board
A. Acosta-Serrano
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, England, UK
D. Allred
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
J. Bangs
University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, USA
M. Barrett
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
V. Bellofatto
University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey (UMDNJ), Newark, New Jersey, USA
M. Berriman
The Sanger Institute, Cambridge, UK
S. Beverley
Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
J.C. Boothroyd
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
K. Brehm
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany
F. Bringaud
Université de Bordeaux, Bordeaux cedex
A. Buck
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
M. Carrington
University of Cambridge, London, UK
N. Carter
Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), Oregon, Oregon, USA
J.J. Cazzulo
Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
F. Chevalier
Texas Biomedical Research Institute, San Antonio, Texas, USA
C. Chitnis
ICGEB - India, New Dehli, India
G. Clark
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK
C.E. Clayton
Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
J.J. Collins
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
A.F. Cowman
Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI), Parkville, Victoria, Australia
A.G. Craig
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, England, UK
C.R. da Silva Garcia
Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Paulo, SP, Brazil
S. Das
University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA
R. Docampo
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
M.A.J. Ferguson
University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
M. Field
University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
T.G. Geary
McGill University, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada
L. Glover
Institut Pasteur, France
E. Gluenz
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
A. Günzl
University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, Connecticut, USA
W.E. Gutteridge
M-A Hakimi
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), LA TRONCHE, France
C. Hokke
Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, Netherlands
A.A. Holder
Medical Research Council (MRC), The Ridgeway Mill Hill, London, UK
D. Horn
University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
J. Jardim
McGill University, Ste-Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada
M.W. Kennedy
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
N.A. Khan, The Feerasta Family Chair & Professor
Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
K. Kim
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New-York, New York, USA
P. Köhler
Universität Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
S.M. Landfear
Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), Oregon, Oregon, USA
S. Lourido
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
A. Maier
Australian National University, Acton-Canberra ACT, Australia
RM McCulloch
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
P. McVeigh
Queen's University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
P.A.M. Michels
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
J.C. Mottram
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
M. Muller
Rockefeller University, New York, New York, USA
M. Ouellette
Centre de Recherche en Infectiologie du CHUL, Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
T. Page
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
B. Papadopoulou
Centre de Recherche du CHUL (CHUQ), Quebec City, Quebec, Canada
M. Parsons
Center for Infectious Disease Research, Seattle, Washington, USA
R. Pierce
CIIL, Institut Pasteur, Lille, France
W. Quiñones
Universidad de Los Andes, Merida, Venezuela
P.K. Rathod
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
P.J. Rosenthal
University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), San Francisco, California, USA
G. Rudenko
Imperial College London, London, England, UK
M.E. Selkirk
Imperial College London, London, UK
W. Sirawaraporn
Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
P. Skelly
Tufts University, North Grafton, Massachusetts, USA
D.F. Smith
University of York, York, UK
T. Smith
University of St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, UK
D. Soldati-Favre
Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
T. Spielmann
Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin, Hamburg, Germany
X-Z. Su
National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA
E. Tannich
Bernhard Nocht Inst., Hamburg, Germany
A.G.M. Tielens
Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
L. Tilley, PhD
University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
C. Tschudi
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
C.M.R. Turner
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
B. Ullman
Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), Portland, Oregon, USA
T.R. Unnasch
University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA
A. Wilson
University of York, York, England, UK
A. Wolstenholme
University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA
M. Zamanian
University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
D. Zilberstein
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel