Not all snails scour the ocean bottom for algae and muck, but some have more refined tastes. But taste is one thing, and having the…
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Tag: Parasite
A New Parasitic Male Found
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed–Abraham Lincoln Over 300 different species of anglerfish…
View More A New Parasitic Male FoundRhizocephala: A Haiku
I want to introduce DSN readers to my new favorite blog by Elliott Kurtz, an undergraduate student studying marine science. Panthalassa Rising provides short description…
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This is clearly an important species we’re dealing with
James Cameron’s Aliens (1986) is the greatest movie ever made. There, I said it. For sheer script quotability, only Pulp Fiction comes close. For dark…
View More This is clearly an important species we’re dealing withA Blanket of Mucus
You are fish. The guy above is your enemy, a Gnathiid isopod, a vicious parasitic relative of a roly-poly. Your defense? You cough up enough loogies…
View More A Blanket of MucusTide Pool: Cool Seeps, Parasitic Nematodes, and Magnetic Sea Animals
An occasional series where we briefly report 3 new studies and tell you why they are cool! Olu et al. in PLoS One examine the…
View More Tide Pool: Cool Seeps, Parasitic Nematodes, and Magnetic Sea AnimalsYour Happiness Kills Crustaceans
Nearly 30-90% of the pharmaceuticals we digest are excreted in its active form. These active pharmaceuticals collect sewage systems and eventually make their way to…
View More Your Happiness Kills CrustaceansIsopods Cause Reproductive Death in Shrimp
Isopods, you know them as those adorable little roly-poly bugs under rocks in the forest or the gigantic Bathynomus of the deep sea. They are…
View More Isopods Cause Reproductive Death in ShrimpFamily Gatherings and Free Swimming Sperm Packets
My wife is from a very large family. Inevitably at in-law gatherings, I find myself whispering into my wife’s ear, “How are you related to…
View More Family Gatherings and Free Swimming Sperm PacketsEchinoderms, Cnidarians, & The Gastropods That Parasitize Them
The recent Invertebrate Wars reminded me of spectacular, but often ignored, group of gastropods. The parasites! This is a group that I have totally geeked…
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