Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Parabasalian Symbionts


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Here, are two new genera of small-to-intermediate size and complexity, represented by the type species Cthulhu macrofasciculumque and Cthylla microfasciculumque from Prorhinotermes simplex and Reticulitermes virginicus, respectively. I'm just sayin.

I guess after today I can no longer brag about never having compared the president to parabasalian symbionts of the lower hindgut of a termite.


Posted by lumberjack at 10:43 PM

2 comments:

OMMAG said...

Snerk .....

9:56 PM
Anonymous said...

Now that's unfair. The parabasilions in a termite gut do something useful, at least for the termite. (Whether it's useful for the rest of us depends on whether the particular termite nest is filling their place in a natural ecology by breaking down deadfall wood, or feasting on an artificial construction.)

8:17 PM

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