My new blog post features a worm that lives in frog ureters - but what happens if it doesn't find a host? http://goo.gl/ucDYhq
@The_Episiarch If they live when expelled from the frog - what are the benefits of jumping into another host? Easier food source I presume?
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@OtherSociology that's how they propagate & transmit - the stage that are expelled from the frog are larvae. The adults that are living -
@OtherSociology in the frog ureters are commit for life. But for the larvae, depending on whether they encounter a frog or not, they'll end -
@OtherSociology up either becoming parasitic or free-living, so their life history is more flexible than that of other parasites which -
@OtherSociology have larval stages that *have* to reach a host or they die -
@The_Episiarch Thanks for the explanation, Tommy!
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