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Jimmy Bernot PhD 🦐🪱🏳️‍🌈

25 Jan, 4 tweets, 3 min read

WHY STUDY #PARASITES?👇Imagine if your whole world was another animal 🤯 Follow me to learn more about these fascinating creatures 🤓

@KellySpeer

For more great #parasite content, check out some of my favorite parasitologists on Twitter:
@KellySpeer
@parasiteecology
@FuSchmu
@ParasiteGal
@The_Episiarch
and the American Society of Parasitologists: @AmSocParasit

@WCPreisser

And @WCPreisser too! Im sure I missed others. Creating a list of Parasite Peeps now. Suggestions welcome

@je_light

And
@je_light
@KayceCBell
@kait_a_gallaghr
Follow my list Parasite Peeps where I’m trying to do a better job of organizing parasitologists active on Twitter (now that I carelessly opened my mouth big enough to put my foot in it 😅)

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Jimmy Bernot PhD 🦐🪱🏳️‍🌈

@JimmyBernot

27 Jan

Heres the story of how I volunteered to be infected with 50 parasitic worms (hookworm) for a year as part of a research study. Check out this thread & follow me for more #parasite & marine biology content [t]
#ScienceTwitter
imgs: bit.ly/39FDQNe n.pr/3itKXwk

1st some background on the parasites I got. Hookworms are blood-feeding nematodes that live in the intestine of mammals including cats, dogs & humans. ~500 million people are infected with hookworm, mostly in tropical and subtropical areas including the southern USA

Infection with many worms (100+) can cause anemia, which is most problematic in kids, pregnant women, and the elderly. This clinical study was launched to try to develop a vaccine against hookworms to prevent infection

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Jimmy Bernot PhD 🦐🪱🏳️‍🌈

@JimmyBernot

24 Dec 20

TANTULOCARIDA: FEMALES AND MALES BECOME PREGNANT WITH CLONES OF THEMSELVES! Saving 1 of my favorite crustaceans for the last days of #Crustmas [a thread]. Among the smallest arthropods, tantulocarids are parasites of other micro-crustaceans
All imgs: researchgate.net/publication/26…

Here you can see a male “pregnant” with a sexual adult stage of ITSELF in its abdomen! Hard to wrap your mind around how weird the life cycle of these animals is 🤯 [t/n]

In fact the life cycle is even crazier than that! The tantulus larva infects a small host crustacean (copepod, cumacean, or other). Then the tantulus becomes “pregnant” with dozens of cloned tantulus larvae (bottom) OR pregnant with adult sexual stages (male or female, top)

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