Great read: marine animals with "super powers." Sacculina parasite will blow your mind. @SFriedScientist http://www.southernfriedscience.com/?p=14057 #science
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@OtherSociology Sacculina & related spp. of parasites have their own parasites too! http://dailyparasite.blogspot.com/2010/09/september-3-liriopsis-pygmaea.html …!@SFriedScientist
@The_Episiarch @SFriedScientist With Jonathan Swift quote from your post in mind, can you think of hyperparasites that don't have parasites?
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@OtherSociology@SFriedScientist or virophages that kinda infect mimivirus which infects Acanthamoeba which infects humans opportunistically -
@The_Episiarch@SFriedScientist Thanks for the pea crab and acanthamoeba examples. Satellite viruses - what a trip!
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@OtherSociology@SFriedScientist hmm, well here's a paper on parasites of pea crabs which live in mussels http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022201111002497 …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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