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Friday, December 7, 2012

Parasites Use Sophisticated Biochemistry to Take Over Their Hosts

Parasites Use Sophisticated Biochemistry to Take Over Their Hosts - NYTimes.com: "From time to time these spiders abandon their own web and build a radically different one, a home not for the spider but for a parasitic wasp that has been living inside it. Then the spider dies — a zombie architect, its brain hijacked by its parasitic invader — and out of its body crawls the wasp’s larva, which has been growing inside it all this time."

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