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#parasites — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #parasites, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Organismes vermiformes d'une embranchement nommé #Nematomorpha, ils fréquentent les #eauxDouces cosmopolites (les points d'eau des grottes, les flaques, les étangs, les lacs, les cours d'eau de toutes tailles, mais aussi domestiques comme les piscines, les cuvettes de toilettes, les abreuvoirs pour bovins et les gamelles d'animaux de compagnie 🤪 ).
    Pour en savoir plus, consultez la nouvelle fiche sur les vers gordiens !

    COVES Jacques, COROLLA Jean-Pierre in : #DORIS 04/09/2026 :
    Gordiida (Ordre) Schmarda, 1871, doris.ffessm.fr/ref/specie/3349

    #Biodiversity #ffessm #Gordioida #Gordiida #biodiversite #vers #parasites

  2. I wasn't that excited about this stock standard photo of a darkling beetle (Eleodes goryi), until I noticed the parasitic tachinid fly egg attached above the insect's midleg. This beetle is on borrowed time.

    #Tenebrionidae #Eleodes #Tachinidae #Parasites #Insects

  3. If eliminated, it would be an amazing achievement.

    "Globally, Guinea worm has declined from an estimated 3.56 million cases across 20 countries in 1986 to just 14 human cases in 5 countries in 2023 — mostly through bottom-up, low-technology efforts similar to those in South Sudan. What’s more, this has been achieved despite the lack of a vaccine or drug treatment for the parasite."

    nature.com/articles/d41586-024

    #Diseases #Parasites #GuineaWorm #TropicalDiseases

  4. Parasite of the Day: Veneriserva pygoclava
    dailyparasite.blogspot.com/202

    Hardly Venus’s servant—morphological adaptations of Veneriserva to an endoparasitic lifestyle link.springer.com/article/10.1

    "over the course of its #evolution, #Veneriserva has ended up with a body plan which is very similar to that of #tapeworms... This 'attachment organ + loads of gonads' type of body plan that they have both independently evolved is also found in other internal #parasites."

  5. La #France (et ses punaises de lit) vue du #Burundi...

    Akeza.net est un site d'info très populaire et présent sur tous les réseaux sociaux ou presque. Les publications sont en français ou en #Kirundi

    #PunaisesDeLit #reputation
    #parasites #jo2024paris #paris

  6. Hi there!, here's another #introduction for the latest migration wave:

    I’m a research associate in the Waller lab at The University of Cambridge. I'm interested in 🧬 and :protein: #evolution #genomics #bionformatics #symbiosis #plastid #mitochondria. I work on these topics in #MicrobialEukaryotes #protists #FreeLiving #parasites

    BTW, don't forget that hashtags are very important in :mastodon:

    see an example here:
    genomic.social/@dsalas/1093136

  7. Intestinal parasites burrowed into man’s brain—and lived there for years - Enlarge / Head of pork tapeworm. (credit: Getty | Michael J Klein)

    ... - arstechnica.com/?p=1812394 #neurocysticercosis #medicalcasestudy #casestudy #parasites #tapeworms #seizures #science #nejm