#roundworm

[written-nature]

Tropical diseases are caused by every major group of pathogens (viruses, bacteria, helminths, and protozoa). Moreover, tropical diseases are sustained by a variety of modes and media of transmission. Consider four: insects, skin, water, and soil (see table 8.3).

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

[bpod-bpod]

Eggs’ Essential Net

A network of proteins protect the cell nuclei from collapse-inducing forces during egg cell production – oogenesis – in the roundworm C. elegans model organism – insight for maintenance of mammalian egg cell integrity

Read the published research paper here

Image from work by Chenshu Liu and colleagues

California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) and Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Published in Science Advances, July 2023

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[the-cosmic-yeet]

Silence, you equine roundworms! You have two diploid chromosomes and lack all conscious thought. Go lie in some mud and perish in three months.

[hauntingpackart]

When I was in highschool, I was in love with the game Plague Inc. I made humanized versions of the different infectors (Bacteria, Virus, Nanovirus, etc). I didn’t do all of them, and Neurax Worm was one I really wanted to do but never did. So I figured for this prompt I finally do humanized Neurax Worm and make her the controller of parasitic worms.

Her hair is strand like because it’s based on what a hookworm looks like when not under a microscope. The veins in her are what it looks like when you have a worm in your body, th tendrils for the neurax worm and what it uses to hook on to people’s brains, and she’s blind (based on what happens if a worm infects your eye and burrows inside it).

5. Parasitic (Days 13-15)

[wtf-fun-factss]

Nematode's (also known as the roundworm) sperm does not swim but crawls using its cytoskeleton instead. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://jcs.biologists.org/content/115/2/367

[thats-frogs-babey]

Worm review!

Perfect, all of em.

[terrietont]

Despite how horrifying most of these are, I tried to make them look cute. These are a bunch of wormy bois. Worm parasites, planaria and hammerhead flatworms. I find these worms just so fascinating. The only one remotely accurate is the planaria in the center, yeah they actually have tiny dot eyes and it’s adorable despite their predatory nature.

[didyouknowanimalfacts]