"How a virus turns caterpillars into zombies..." Topic
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Tango01  | 30 Apr 2022 9:40 p.m. PST |
… doomed to climb to their deaths "Higher and higher still, the cotton bollworm moth caterpillar climbs, its tiny body ceaselessly scaling leaf after leaf. Reaching the top of a plant, it will die, facilitating the spread of the virus that steered the insect there. One virus behind this deadly ascent manipulates genes associated with caterpillars' vision. As a result, the insects are more attracted to sunlight than usual, researchers report online March 8 in Molecular Ecology…"
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| Zephyr1 | 01 May 2022 2:27 p.m. PST |
"…the (zombie) insects are more attracted to sunlight than usual," If it was a vampire virus, they'd burst into flames… ;-) |
| Tango01 | 01 May 2022 2:52 p.m. PST |
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