Wednesday, January 13, 2016
What's the weirdest place in the world?
A couple of recent biological observations converge to the unlikely but obvious answer.
Inside a fig.
Figs nurture an internal ecosystem that includes:
Story 1: Parasitic wasps with ZINC-PLATED ovipositors that have an independent system of sensors to locate and conquer the eggs of competing wasps.
Story 2: Nematodes that can develop five entirely different head structures depending on which food source is dominant. (Parasitic wasps are one of the food sources.)
Labels: Alternate universe
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