Tag: trematode

Episodes

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.

Episodes

TWiP 149: Stranger in a strange land

March 22, 2018
Tagged as: agrochemicals, Angiostrongylus cantonensis, bottom-up ecological effect, flatworm, intermediate host, mesocosm, parasite, parasitism, parasitology, rat lungworm, schistosomiasis, snail, top-down ecological effect, trematode

Shivang joins the TWiP triumvirate to solve the case of the New Yorker With Rash and Pins and Needles, and reveal how agrochemicals increase risk of human schistosomiasis by causing high snail density.