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alojapan.com/1243448/the-band- The band that turned a pandemic lockdown into a Tokyo dream #band #picopop #ShibuyaKei #Tapeworms #Tokyo #TokyoTopics #東京 #東京都 Theo Poyer and Margot Magnieres fell hard for Japan on their first visit. It was March 2020, their first trip outside Europe, and they were loving being here — until things got a little too dramatic. “We got one of the last flights back to France before everything was closed,” Poyer says, recalling the chaotic …

Parasite of the Day: Anoplocephala gorillae dailyparasite.blogspot.com/202

Anoplocephalid #tapeworms in #MountainGorillas inhabiting the #VolcanoesNationalPark, #Rwanda: Barbora Červená et al. cambridge.org/core/journals/pa

"how do the #gorillas end up with all those tapeworms in the first place? They have to go through an intermediate host, which is usually a prey #animal. But since gorillas are #herbivores, how can tapeworms gain entry into their guts?"

Parasite of the Day: Veneriserva pygoclava
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Hardly Venus’s servant—morphological adaptations of Veneriserva to an endoparasitic lifestyle link.springer.com/article/10.1

"over the course of its #evolution, #Veneriserva has ended up with a body plan which is very similar to that of #tapeworms... This 'attachment organ + loads of gonads' type of body plan that they have both independently evolved is also found in other internal #parasites."