neville parkAug 1, 2023

i have 2 jobs to do and only enough time left for 1 of them but i just had to pop in to mention this absolute banger of a paper title

"28 minutes later: investigating the role of aflatrem-like compounds in Ophiocordyceps parasite manipulation of zombie ants"

by William C. Beckerson, Courtney Krider, Umar A. Mohammad & Charissa de Bekker in _Animal Behaviour_ (in press) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2023.06.011  

#ants #parasitism #fungi #sporespondence #Ophiocordyceps #Formicidae #Camponotus

Dr. Sebastian A Echeverri, PhDAug 2, 2023
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side note: people always think some weird bug shit is _Cordyceps_. it never is, partly because bugs are just weirder than you think, but also because the parasite you're thinking of was reclassified as _Ophiocordyceps_.

so i made these 2 gifs, share and enjoy 🐜 🍄

Aug 1, 2023 at 2:10amWeb