Keeping an eye out: I've written a blog post about the infamous zombie snail parasite - Leucochloridium paradoxum https://goo.gl/WRiJRq pic.twitter.com/gPVc77Fwia
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Keeping an eye out: I've written a blog post about the infamous zombie snail parasite - Leucochloridium paradoxum https://goo.gl/WRiJRq pic.twitter.com/gPVc77Fwia
I managed to get a lot of mileage out of that paper; a blog post AND reference material for a Parasite Monster Girlhttps://goo.gl/yQvAb4
no, it keeps the snail alive for as long as possible - the parasite colony converts the snail into a parasite larvae factory basically
so the longer the snail stays alive, the more larvae produced by the parasite colony
OMG horrific! OK, so when the parasite leaves the snail the snail remains alive even though it bursts (?) through the host?
well, no the parasite doesn't leave the snail as such, usually with flukes, when it infects a snail it asexually multiples, basically clones
itself producing stages call parthenitae. The role of the parthenitae is to use the snail's nutrients to produce the next stage in the
the life-cycle called "cercariae" - *those* stages leave the snail, but the parthenitae stay and keeps on pumping out more cercariae
that Leucochloridium is unusual because instead of having individual microscopic cercariae that leaves the snail, some of those parthenitae
So the stage that leaves the snail still doesn't kill the snail? [Thanks for explaining BTW.]
yep - it might hurt the snail, but not enough to kill it. Usually other flukes don't have those big broodsacs coming out of them tho
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