The parasitic fungus that encourages houseflies to mate with ‘corpses’
A fungus that controls houseflies, and then encourages the non-infected ones to mate with dead flies? This is what researchers discovered when they studied a widespread parasitic fungus called Entomophthora muscae. While the fungus’ ability to control the dying housefly was known, this is the first time that researchers observed an ability to impact mating […]
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