Necromeny (Ecology 🏞️)
Necromeny is a symbiotic relationship where an animal infects a host and waits inside its body until its death, at which point it develops and completes its life-cycle on the cadaver, feeding on the decaying matter and the subsequent bacterial growth. As the necromenic animal benefits from the relationship while the host is unharmed, it is an example of commensalism....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necromeny
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Canadian pharmacist key figure behind world's most notorious deepfake porn site
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mrdeepfakes-porn-website-key-figure-1.7527626
* 650,000 users, some of whom charged $100s to create custom videos 🤔
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A joint international investigation by CBC News, Bellingcat and Danish outlets Politiken and Tjekdet has linked a Canadian pharmacist to one of the biggest website in the world for non-consensual, AI-generated pornography: MrDeepFakes.com.
Heroine Corruption 3 | Doggo's doujins https://smilingdog.booth.pm/items/6855383 #booth_pm
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🆕Interview: In this interview, Daniela Mera-Rodríguez, talks about a recent publication on 𝐴𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑦𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑥 𝑜𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑜𝑠𝑢𝑠 species complex. #taxonomy #nquilinism #parasitism #speciation
In the paper “Phylogenomic approach to integrative taxonomy resolves a century-old taxonomic puzzle and the evolutionary history of the Acromyrmex octospinosus species complex”, first author Daniela Mera-Rodríguez and colleagues discuss their latest study of the
Most orchids live in a symbiotic relationship with fungi in their roots: The plants provide sugar they produce through photosynthesis and in return receive water and minerals from the fungi. However, some orchids have stopped producing their own food and completely feed on fungi.
#Orchid's #nutrient theft from f#ungi sheds light on #photosynthesis-#parasitism continuum.
#kleptophagy #kleptoparasitism #mycoheterotrophy #mycorrhizae
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-orchid-nutrient-theft-fungi-photosynthesis.html
Most orchids live in a symbiotic relationship with fungi in their roots: The plants provide sugar they produce through photosynthesis and in return receive water and minerals from the fungi. However, some orchids have stopped producing their own food and completely feed on fungi.
@futurebird Wasn't there a study that showed how fungal hypha extend to control the muscles directly, bypassing the host's nervous system? Like this one:
"Three-dimensional visualization and a deep-learning model reveal complex fungal parasite networks in behaviorally manipulated ants", Fredericksen et al. (Hughes lab) 2017
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1711673114
Suppl. movie S1 shows "one muscle fiber (red) surrounded by 25 connected O. unilateralis s.l. hyphal bodies (yellow)"
https://movie-usa.glencoesoftware.com/video/10.1073/pnas.1711673114/video-1
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