#follicular — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #follicular, aggregated by home.social.
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“Human #follicular #mites: #ectoparasites becoming #symbionts” (Smith et al. 2022)
Do you think about the mites that live in your #face #follicles and come out at #night while you #sleep? Maybe you should!
🧬 They’ve #evolved a tiny #genome.
💪🏻 Each leg segment is powered by only one #muscle cell.
😴 They follow your sleep cycles by responding to your #melatonin.
🧫 Lowest number of cells of any #arthropod.
If you find this intriguingly #weird, this paper is for you! 🤯