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But Seriously, How Did All That Fit in There?

Dec 20, 2006

It's a gross-out morning here at Genome Technology, where we can't stop watching this disturbing video of a cricket dying. The cricket's infected with a parasite that uses mind-control tricks (hey, we couldn’t make this up if we tried -- check out the article in our sister publication ProteoMonitor from earlier this year) to get its host to commit suicide so the parasite can escape and reproduce.

Ewwww.

 

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