Six Spooky Science Stories and Halloween at Addgene
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...and did their best to claim the costume contest trophy. We’ve had teams dressed up as plasmids, Blugene...unilateralis is a fungus that infects ants and controls their behavior. These ants become “zombies” and...their jaws into a leaf, and dies as its muscles atrophy. After the ant’s death, the fungal fruiting bodies...display imitating a moving caterpillar. The worm controls the snail’s behavior, forcing it out of hiding...blood out. Once the blood is depleted, the tongue atrophies and falls off. The louse remains becoming the ...