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Parasite Manipulates Plant Cells to Attract Insects for Its Transmission
A bacterial parasite influences plant cell behaviour to attract insects and secure its transmission. Research reveals how the SAP54 protein manipulates plant defences, encouraging female insects to choose plants with male leafhoppers. This adaptation ensures the parasite’s life cycle continues by promoting reproduction and feeding in infected pla...
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Woman Lived With Parasite In Eye For Two Years After Eating Crocodile Meat
Armillifer parasites utilize snakes as their hosts during the last stage of their life cycle, where they lay eggs in the respiratory tracts of different types of vipers and pythons.
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Bloodsucking 'Vampire Fish' Makes A Comeback In America's Great Lakes
The parasitic "vampire fish," which has rows of circular teeth and feeds on the blood of its hosts, is resurfacing in the Great Lakes.
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An Artist Found A Parasitic Worm In His Eye - And Turned It Into Art
The painting was not an image of anything in particular, just an abstract confluence of psychedelic colors and wormlike patterns inside a perfectly round circle. Ben Taylor didn't like it much, and he said he didn't know why he painted it. But the wormlike patterns represent years of spiraling into unknown illness that had driven the 47-year-old pa...
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Should You Let Your Dog Lick You?
Many dogs owners have expressed that they feel a sense of calm when their dog licks them. But there has been a lot of debate concerning around the adorable act of expressing affection.
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I'm no bloodsucking parasite, says FIFA president Sepp Blatter
Blatter has been roasted in the British press in recent years, especially after England's failed bid to host the 2018 World Cup, in which they garnered just two votes out of 22 -- one of them their own, as Russia won out.
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Parasite Manipulates Plant Cells to Attract Insects for Its Transmission
A bacterial parasite influences plant cell behaviour to attract insects and secure its transmission. Research reveals how the SAP54 protein manipulates plant defences, encouraging female insects to choose plants with male leafhoppers. This adaptation ensures the parasite’s life cycle continues by promoting reproduction and feeding in infected pla...
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Woman Lived With Parasite In Eye For Two Years After Eating Crocodile Meat
Armillifer parasites utilize snakes as their hosts during the last stage of their life cycle, where they lay eggs in the respiratory tracts of different types of vipers and pythons.
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Bloodsucking 'Vampire Fish' Makes A Comeback In America's Great Lakes
The parasitic "vampire fish," which has rows of circular teeth and feeds on the blood of its hosts, is resurfacing in the Great Lakes.
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An Artist Found A Parasitic Worm In His Eye - And Turned It Into Art
The painting was not an image of anything in particular, just an abstract confluence of psychedelic colors and wormlike patterns inside a perfectly round circle. Ben Taylor didn't like it much, and he said he didn't know why he painted it. But the wormlike patterns represent years of spiraling into unknown illness that had driven the 47-year-old pa...
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Should You Let Your Dog Lick You?
Many dogs owners have expressed that they feel a sense of calm when their dog licks them. But there has been a lot of debate concerning around the adorable act of expressing affection.
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I'm no bloodsucking parasite, says FIFA president Sepp Blatter
Blatter has been roasted in the British press in recent years, especially after England's failed bid to host the 2018 World Cup, in which they garnered just two votes out of 22 -- one of them their own, as Russia won out.
