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This week, we’re joined by evolutionary biologist and science communicator Dr. Sally LePage to talk all about parasites! How did we deal with them before modern medicine? Are there any parasites bigger than their hosts? And is parasite-ception a thing!?
Sources:
[Fact Off]
Fruit fly fungus:
Frog flatworm:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2013/02/13/a-flurry-of-frog-legs/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4330773/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00436-011-2451-z
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/13/us/many-reports-of-deformities-among-frogs-are-puzzling.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4636111/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Cuckoos:
https://www.audubon.org/news/the-brilliant-ways-parasitic-birds-terrorize-their-victims
https://web.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Brood_Parasitism.html
Plants:
http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7496.html
https://csfs.colostate.edu/forest-management/common-forest-insects-diseases/dwarf-mistletoe/
[Butt One More Thing] - pick the one that we end up using (probably Hank’s)
Tick anus:
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/717730_2
Poop bean sprout:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192079/
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This week, we’re joined by evolutionary biologist and science communicator Dr. Sally LePage to talk all about parasites! How did we deal with them before modern medicine? Are there any parasites bigger than their hosts? And is parasite-ception a thing!?
Sources:
[Fact Off]
Fruit fly fungus:
Frog flatworm:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2013/02/13/a-flurry-of-frog-legs/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4330773/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00436-011-2451-z
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/13/us/many-reports-of-deformities-among-frogs-are-puzzling.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4636111/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Cuckoos:
https://www.audubon.org/news/the-brilliant-ways-parasitic-birds-terrorize-their-victims
https://web.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Brood_Parasitism.html
Plants:
http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7496.html
https://csfs.colostate.edu/forest-management/common-forest-insects-diseases/dwarf-mistletoe/
[Butt One More Thing] - pick the one that we end up using (probably Hank’s)
Tick anus:
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/717730_2
Poop bean sprout:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192079/
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