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Lounge, flat, morning

Posted: November 9th, 2003 Comments Off on Lounge, flat, morning

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Eugene Volokh (via Aaron) discusses parasites that alter their host’s behaviour to suit, malady which reminds me of the remarkable lancet liver fluke (dicrocoelium dentriticum).
It has a bizarrely convoluted life-cycle which involves three different hosts, all of which are traversed in different ways. This diagram gives a brief overview, but doesn’t mention the best bit – the fluke gives the ant a lobotomy so as to make it move to the top of the grass and get eaten by a mammal. Evolution doesn’t half take some chances.

Eugene Volokh (via Aaron) discusses parasites that alter their host’s behaviour to suit, malady which reminds me of the remarkable lancet liver fluke (dicrocoelium dentriticum).
It has a bizarrely convoluted life-cycle which involves three different hosts, all of which are traversed in different ways. This diagram gives a brief overview, but doesn’t mention the best bit – the fluke gives the ant a lobotomy so as to make it move to the top of the grass and get eaten by a mammal. Evolution doesn’t half take some chances.

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