In other Science Daily Online articles we have talked to you about why, despite the growing filmography and popularity of zombies and their wars and apocalypse, they would be naturally impossible, but the possibility that an organism would Take another and manipulate it for your benefit is not a strategy of survival strange in nature, as evidenced by the seven chilling parasites of what we will talk about next.
7 SCALOFRIANTS parasites that CONTROL your host
1. Hymenoepimecis argyraphaga
It is a wasp that is found in Costa Rica and that to reproduce uses the belly of a live spider, in which it lays its eggs.
To do This wasp inoculates a poison to the spider that paralyzes it momentarily and, in addition, affects its neurological activity, by modifying the web design to house the future larvae, which will grow feeding on the spider until it is killed.
2.Iridovirus IIV-6/crIV
This sexually transmitted virus attacks some cricket species ; while the sterilizes stimulates the desire to reproduce , to pass to other crickets.
Usually, when the cricket is sick it avoids reproduction, what has been a defense mechanism of the species that is deactivated by the iridovirus to guarantee its reproduction.Macabro.
3. Spinochordodes tellinii
It is a nematode that also has crickets as a favorite victim; its larvae develop in the host's body, control its nervous system and force it to “commit suicide” by throwing itself into the water, as the nematode needs an aquatic environment to reproduce.
The term used by the researchers of this biological phenomenon for Referring to this process of manipulation of one species by another was "neuromodulation" .
4.Sacculina
It is a tiny crustacean belonging to the order of the cirripedos (relative of the barnacles), which seeks as live and involuntary accommodation to the crabs, in which it is initially set as if they were a rock on the coast, then penetrate the shell and invade the body and move on to control the host.
The sacculin occupies the body of the crab, feeds on it, uses it to reproduce and then makes his victim "believe" that the parasite's children are his own, and therefore protects them until his death.
5. Euhaplorchis californiensis
It is a parasite that lives in the salt mines of southern California and although its main hosts are coastal birds, to reach them adopts a curious practice.
The parasite lodges in the gills of fish ciprinodontidae, advances to its brain and disturbs it, causing convulsive movements that make the birds detect them more easily, turning them into Easy prey of them.Yes, the parasite passes from the salt pans to the birds.
6. Paradoxum leucochloridium
It is a flat worm that adopts a strategy similar to that of the euhaplorchis ; the larvae, present in bird droppings, are introduced into a land snail when it feeds on the feces; he usually lives in dark and protected places in the forests, but the parasite causes him to climb the logs and place himself in clear and exposed places.
To finish off, the worm will seizes one of the snail's eyes , which acquires the bright colors of the parasite and makes it move so that the birds confuse it with a tasty worm.If it returns to the birds and restart the cycle.
7. Toxoplasma gondii
He is responsible for toxoplasmosis , a disease that has touched at least one third of humanity.There is experimental evidence that can affect the behavior of small mammals such as rats and mice, making attracted to the smell of cats and therefore being easy prey to the true carrier of this parasite .
Recent research suggests that it could also affect human behavior, stimulating sexual desire , but also neurotic and even suicidal behaviors .
The story of the guest that modifies the host's behavior for his own benefit and that eventually destroys it is not totally unknown to us, don't you think? The difference is that animals with parasitic behavior can move into new bodies, while we only have only one host, at least for now: Earth.
Try reading the 5 most unpleasant parasites of nature, or the amoeba that "devours" the human brain.
Images: bathyporeia, pittigliani2005, Wellcome Images, Andrea Hale, Wikipedia
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