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TWiP 158: Ant-appetising slime balls

  • September 13, 2018
  • Tagged as: alteration, ant, behavior, coir, dendriticum, dicrocoelium, ganglion, manipulator, master, metacercaria, mite, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, ticks, trematode

The TWiP hosts solve the case of the Thai Woman With Red Bumps, and reveal that a master manipulator contacts ant brain tissue to control its behavior.

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