WSS S4E8: Don’t Blink: How Living Species Deal with the Rapid Evolution of Parasites
- Author
- westernuscience
- Published
- Thu 05 Dec 2019
- Episode Link
- https://westernuscience.podbean.com/e/wss-s4e8/
With a population in the millions of trillions, parasites are able to evolve at a faster pace than just about anything on Earth. Beth MacDougall-Shackleton, joins the Western Science Speaks Podcast to discuss some of the innovative mechanisms used by parasites to attach to a host, some of the warning signs of infection across different species, and why we wouldn’t want to completely eradicate parasites from our ecosystem.
