The TWiPsters solve the case of the Rashy Schoolteacher, and reveal a drug from rotifers that live on the snail intermediate host which paralyzes schistosome cercariae and prevents infection of mice.
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.
Christina Naula, Ph.D.
Dickson D.
Despommier, Ph.D.
Daniel Griffin, M.D.,
Vincent Racaniello, Ph.D.