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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Underwater buffet: Who wants the ectoparasites? <a href="https://oceanbites.org/underwater-buffet-who-wants-the-ectoparasites/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">oceanbites.org/underwater-buff</span><span class="invisible">et-who-wants-the-ectoparasites/</span></a> </p><p>Functional diversity among <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/CoralReef" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CoralReef</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fishes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fishes</span></a> as consumers of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ectoparasites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ectoparasites</span></a> <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00338-023-02459-4" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">link.springer.com/article/10.1</span><span class="invisible">007/s00338-023-02459-4</span></a> </p><p>"Cleaner fishes are crucial to maintaining <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fish</span></a> community health by eating parasites off host fishes. Cleaners are especially important since <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/parasitism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>parasitism</span></a> is super common in coral reefs, affecting the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystem</span></a> on both individual and community levels."</p>
Dezene Huber 🌻<p>“Human <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/follicular" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>follicular</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/mites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mites</span></a>: <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/ectoparasites" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ectoparasites</span></a> becoming <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/symbionts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>symbionts</span></a>” (Smith et al. 2022)</p><p>Do you think about the mites that live in your <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/face" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>face</span></a> <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/follicles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>follicles</span></a> and come out at <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/night" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>night</span></a> while you <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/sleep" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sleep</span></a>? Maybe you should!</p><p>🧬 They’ve <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/evolved" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evolved</span></a> a tiny <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/genome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genome</span></a>.</p><p>💪🏻 Each leg segment is powered by only one <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/muscle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>muscle</span></a> cell.</p><p>😴 They follow your sleep cycles by responding to your <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/melatonin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>melatonin</span></a>.</p><p>🧫 Lowest number of cells of any <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/arthropod" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arthropod</span></a>.</p><p>If you find this intriguingly <a href="https://ecoevo.social/tags/weird" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weird</span></a>, this paper is for you! 🤯</p><p><a href="https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/39/6/msac125/6604544" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">academic.oup.com/mbe/article/3</span><span class="invisible">9/6/msac125/6604544</span></a></p>