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Art and science come together beautifully in morphological taxonomy. #FallInLoveWithParasites @WoodLabUW
Scientific illustrations is still the gold standard skill for any good taxonomic work. Here our @NWU_WRG MSc student @_Geraldine_7 show us how its done! #MarineFishParasites
A love story about my long affair with #parasites, beautifully told by @Scatter_Cushion! Hope that it makes you #FallInLoveWithParasites, too.
Sneak peak of an *incredible* thread about another mind bending parasite: Toxoplasma gondii! Check out @WoodLabUW for more parasite facts that will make you #FallInLoveWithParasites
Toxo's also linked to road accidents- people who've been exposed to Toxoplasma gondii are more likely to have been in accidents, probably due to increased risk taking. https://t.co/2HUjGqQ6xF
UW called it the “Tweet of the Week.” Looks like someone has fallen under parasites’ love spell! #FallInLoveWithParasites
For those of use who like zombie stories, and find spooky stories fascinating, Toxo is a parasite that makes it easy to #FallInLoveWithParasites.
It's beginning to feel a lot like Halloween, and it's time for rats 🐀, cats 🐈, and mind control 🧠 with Toxoplasma gondii! Toxo begins life in rats, mice, and birds, which get eaten by cats, where the parasite grows into its adult form.... #FallInLoveWithParasites
Best thing I’ve received in the mail in months - a container of tapeworm-infested Tenebrio beetles! Raw material for an epic tapeworm lab in #FISH406 parasite ecology #FallInLoveWithParasites #parasite @UW_SAFS
Do parasites have you under their spell? Well, what better way to #FallInLoveWithParasites than with a little manipulation - behavioral manipulation!
Evileye puffers are so slimey, but cool! I bet these caligids enjoyed the mucus meal. #FallInLoveWithParasites
Day 4 of our search for South Africa's hidden marine diversity: See if you can spot the caligids on the evileye pufferfish we caught today!! @WynandMalherbe @NWU_WRG @pollyhayes #MarineFishParasites
@julishells and I might jokingly kid around about what amount of time constitutes historic, but she wins today, with mentioning some cool parasite interactions of the *deep* past. #FallInLoveWithParasites
Did you know that you can #FallInLoveWithParasites that are half a billion years years old?! Interactions between #fossil hosts and #parasites can be traced back the Cambrian period!
Ancient DNA from fossil poo (coprolites) from extinct moas and prehistoric kakapos has also been used to reconstruct host parasite interactions and even document #coextinction!! So many reasons to #FallInLoveWithParasites of the past! https://t.co/RFGdKEMf0r
Did you know that you can #FallInLoveWithParasites that are half a billion years years old?! Interactions between #fossil hosts and #parasites can be traced back the Cambrian period!
Let's #FallInLoveWithParasites with some botflies! Content warning, the following pictures and videos show botfly larvae in rodents and may be disturbing to some. They're an appropriately creepy focus for Halloween! (1/6)
Here's some whaley good facts about how parasites help us learn about whale behavior! C'mon, doesn't this make you #FallInLoveWithParasites!?
Have our fun facts made you #FallInLoveWithParasites yet?? If not, have you heard of whale lice? They might change your mind!
Have our fun facts made you #FallInLoveWithParasites yet?? If not, have you heard of whale lice? They might change your mind!
If form and function don't make you #FallInLoveWithParasites, then how about how colorful they can be? Gnathiids obtain colorful bodies based on their last bloodmeal. This can be a good hint as to which type of fish they last fed on.
It's easy to #FallInLoveWithParasites when they are SO charismatic! Ectoparasites come in all shapes, sizes, colors & vary in their ecosystem function. Cymothoids might look like they are large & in charge but their net effects on host health can be very variable among species.
The Nobel-winning parasitologist Bill Campbell perhaps put it best: “I just think they are wonderful, they’re brilliant, they have incredible diversity - and in fact I have no problem reconciling the fact that I love worms but have spent half my life trying to kill them.”
We hope this helps you #FallInLoveWithParasites! Check back daily to learn about other loveable (and interesting) parasites. If you've any questions, reply here, message us, or message @MoDubs11!
It's time to #FallInLoveWithParasites, particularly nematomorph worms. It's estimated there may be 2000 freshwater species of nematomorphs globally. They can (very rarely) infect humans: https://t.co/xdq6PfBs1n
But most of the time, these are good parasites.
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