
How Zombifying Fungi Became Master Manipulators
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The Evolution of Fungi
Joao's travels have produced many uncharacterized species of ophioicordiseps and related fungi, including manipulators and non-manipulators. Cicadas, locus, zombie wasps too. So what social insects has that enables the fungus to hijack their brain? There's something there that we need still to investigate to answer.
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