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  1. 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."

  2. 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."

  3. 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."

  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. 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."

  6. 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