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Friday, October 31, 2008

Manipulative fungi relationships

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This video is about fungal infections that change the hosts behavior to benefit the parasitic fungus. If you are anything like me you will appreciate the elegance of the relationship.


Fungi can also produce plant hormones to control a hosts growth. Talk about manipulative...


Today is Halloween. Imagine that fungi are in our brains manipulating you to do whatever you are doing. What if your personality is partly the manipulations of a pathogenic fungi? Excuses, excuses.

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2 comments:

Goodchicken said...

And with this, you learn one of the first words I learned in Japan...baka...

stupid. :)

-RT

Ry said...

Baka is cow in spanish too you crazy spaniard?

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