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April 22, 2018
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Tag: Parasite

Malacology Monthly: It Eats Whaaaat?

Not all snails scour the ocean bottom for algae and muck, but some have more refined tastes. But taste...
Adaptations, Biology, Coral Reef, Ecology, Evolution, Intertidal, Mollusk, Uncategorized, Weird

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...
Adaptations, Biology, Evolution, Fish, Mating & Reproduction, Organisms

Rhizocephala: A Haiku

I want to introduce DSN readers to my new favorite blog by Elliott Kurtz, an undergraduate student studying marine...
Adaptations, Carnivals & Link Love

This is clearly an important species we’re dealing with

Face hugger
James Cameron’s Aliens (1986) is the greatest movie ever made. There, I said it. For sheer script quotability, only...
Adaptations, Mating & Reproduction, Uncategorized, Weird

A Blanket of Mucus

You are fish.  The guy above is your enemy, a Gnathiid isopod, a vicious parasitic relative of a roly-poly.  Your...
Adaptations, Fish

Tide 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...
Adaptations, Ecology, Evolution, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, New Species, Organisms, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Your Happiness Kills Crustaceans

Nearly 30-90% of the pharmaceuticals we digest are excreted in its active form. These active pharmaceuticals collect sewage systems...
Biology, Dumping, New Research, Organisms, Plankton

Isopods 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...
Adaptations, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Weird

Family 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...
Adaptations, Fish, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Open Access, Organisms

Echinoderms, 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...
Adaptations, Coral, Opinion & Editorial, Organisms
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