Parasites Thrive in Lizard Embryos’ Brain
Lizard embryos host tiny nematode invaders
By Sandrine Ceurstemont on May 1, 2020
Intrigued, Feiner, then with the University of Oxford, and a colleague examined the embryos' parents. They found nematodes only in the ovaries of mothers that had produced infected embryos, suggesting the parasites were migrating to their offspring in a way researchers had thought impossible.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/parasites-thrive-in-lizard-embryos-brain/
Lizard embryos host tiny nematode invaders
By Sandrine Ceurstemont on May 1, 2020
Intrigued, Feiner, then with the University of Oxford, and a colleague examined the embryos' parents. They found nematodes only in the ovaries of mothers that had produced infected embryos, suggesting the parasites were migrating to their offspring in a way researchers had thought impossible.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/parasites-thrive-in-lizard-embryos-brain/
This article was originally published with the title "Parasites on the Brain" in Scientific American 322, 5, 16 (May 2020)
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0520-16a
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