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trippy trematode
trippy trematode
Are you trippin’? Because these snails definitely are. Or so it would seem. Learn more about the parasitic worms, called trematodes, that cause snails to loose their minds in today’s comic: trippy trematode.
Learn more about these crazy creatures here.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Even parasites deserve a Thanksgiving feast!
Undergraduate researcher Sarah Colosimo in the Wood Lab at the University of Washington’s School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences studies parasitic worms which feast on the gut content of harbor seals in Puget Sound (and gave a terrific talk about her work at WSN 2018!). Learn more in today’s comic, the second installment of “Interviews with Invertebrates… within Vertebrates”: gastric gathering
Happy Thanksgiving from Interviews with Invertebrates!