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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Rare <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#fossil</a> embryos show early <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Ecdysozoa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ecdysozoa</a> development in <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cambrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cambrian</a> era <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-12-rare-fossil-embryos-early-ecdysozoa.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2024-12-rare-fossil-embryos-early-ecdysozoa.html</a> paper: <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018224006242" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031018224006242</a> "it suggests a bag-shaped body is likely primitive for <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ecdysozoans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecdysozoans</a> (a diverse group of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#animals</a> including <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/roundworms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roundworms</a>, velvet <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/worms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#worms</a>, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#insects</a>, and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/crabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#crabs</a>), while a vermiform body, characteristic of crown-group ecdysozoans, evolved later."

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺The Hidden World of Electrostatic Ecology <a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-world-of-electrostatic-ecology-20240930/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-world-of-electrostatic-ecology-20240930/</a> "Invisibly to us, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#insects</a> and other tiny creatures use <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/StaticElectricity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#StaticElectricity</a> to travel, avoid predators, collect pollen and more... <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ticks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ticks</a> and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/roundworms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roundworms</a> hitch rides on electric fields generated by larger animal hosts. In a behavior known as ballooning, <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/spiders" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#spiders</a> take flight by extending a silk thread to catch charges in the sky... static attracts <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/pollen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pollen</a> to <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/butterflies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#butterflies</a> and <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/moths" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#moths</a>, and may help <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/caterpillars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#caterpillars</a> to evade predators"

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺Tiny <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/roundworms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roundworms</a> carve out unique parasitic niche inside <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/pseudoscorpion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pseudoscorpion</a>'s protective covering <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-06-tiny-roundworms-unique-parasitic-niche.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2024-06-tiny-roundworms-unique-parasitic-niche.html</a>Ectoparasitic nematodes developing in the integument of a Baltic amber pseudoscorpion <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2341848" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08912963.2024.2341848</a>"In a parasitic first, a Baltic <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/amber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#amber</a> specimen has revealed that millions of years ago, tiny worms known as <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/nematodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nematodes</a> were living inside of and feeding on the outer protective layer of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/pseudoscorpions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pseudoscorpions</a>."

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺With discovery of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/roundworms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roundworms</a>, Great Salt Lake's imperiled ecosystem gets more interesting <a href="https://phys.org/news/2024-03-discovery-roundworms-great-salt-lake.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2024-03-discovery-roundworms-great-salt-lake.html</a>Newly identified <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/nematodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nematodes</a> from the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/GreatSaltLake" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GreatSaltLake</a> are associated with <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/microbialites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#microbialites</a> and specially adapted to <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/hypersaline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#hypersaline</a> conditions: Julie Jung et al. <a href="https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2653" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.2653</a> "they discovered thousands of tiny <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/worms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#worms</a> in the lake's microbialites, those reef-like structures that cover about a fifth of the lakebed."

Jonathan EmmesediFunnel web spiders, box jellyfish, and now I read this: <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/28/live-worm-living-womans-brain-australia-depression-forgetfulness" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/28/live-worm-living-womans-brain-australia-depression-forgetfulness</a>I think I might be too scared to visit Australia!<a href="https://c.im/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Australia</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/roundworms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roundworms</a>

Six Grandfathers Mountain<a href="https://mastodon.social/@Sheril" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Sheril</a>Who's afraid of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nematodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nematodes</a> ⁉️They are everywhere, salt, fresh, soil, polar, tropics, mountain tops to bottom of the sea (even to the Titanic level) They outnumber all animals in both individual and species countsThey are 90% of all animals on the ocean floorIn the topsoil there are 60 billion for each humanThere are 1 million per square meter and are 80% of all animals on earthHave an important role in many ecosystemsSome <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/roundworms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roundworms</a> cause <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trichinosis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trichinosis</a> 👹 YES, be afraid

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Amber" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Amber</a> reveals <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/evolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#evolution</a> of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/parasitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#parasitism</a> of nematodes <a href="https://phys.org/news/2023-07-amber-reveals-evolution-parasitism-nematodes.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2023-07-amber-reveals-evolution-parasitism-nematodes.html</a>Widespread mermithid nematode parasitism of Cretaceous <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#insects</a> <a href="https://elifesciences.org/articles/86283" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://elifesciences.org/articles/86283</a>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Nematodes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nematodes</a> (<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/roundworms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roundworms</a>) are distributed worldwide in almost all habitats. The <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Mermithidae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mermithidae</a>, a family of nematodes larger than others, are obligate <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/invertebrate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#invertebrate</a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/parasites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#parasites</a>... 16 new <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/mermithids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mermithids</a> associated with their <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/insect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#insect</a> hosts were described, including nine new species, which triples the diversity of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cretaceous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cretaceous</a> Mermithidae"

eLifeA new tool called TARDIS could help researchers build larger and more diverse populations of genetically modified <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/roundworms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roundworms</a> and potentially other laboratory animals. <a href="https://elifesciences.org/digests/84831/editing-the-genome-with-tardis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://elifesciences.org/digests/84831/editing-the-genome-with-tardis?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=organic</a>

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Give <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/roundworms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roundworms</a> some weed and they’ll get the munchies, study finds Work could further our understanding of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/endocannabinoid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#endocannabinoid</a> system, help drug development. C. elegans, also experiences the munchies when dosed with <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/cannabinoids" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cannabinoids</a>, according to a new paper published in the journal Current Biology. We suspect it's not a coincidence that the paper was released on April 20. <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/give-a-roundworm-some-weed-and-hell-get-the-munchies-study-finds/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/04/give-a-roundworm-some-weed-and-hell-get-the-munchies-study-finds/</a>

CellBioNewsCarnivorous oyster <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/mushrooms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mushrooms</a> can kill <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/roundworms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#roundworms</a> with “nerve gas in a lollipop” <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/Pleurotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pleurotus</a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/toxocysts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#toxocysts</a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/lethal_lollipops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#lethal_lollipops</a> <a href="https://scientificnetwork.de/tags/octanone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#octanone</a> <a href="https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/carnivorous-oyster-mushrooms-can-kill-roundworms-with-nerve-gas-in-a-lollipop/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/01/carnivorous-oyster-mushrooms-can-kill-roundworms-with-nerve-gas-in-a-lollipop/</a>

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