New research has proven that mind control worms, more formally known as Hairworms, are missing genes seen in almost every other animal.
Hairworms are called mind control worms because they are able to affect the behavior of the hosts that they inhabit. This allows them to make the host do things that it might not normally do. There are a few hundred different species of these freshwater hairworms, and the process they follow to grow up is intriguing and also terrifying, too.that digs deeper into the genes that make up these parasitic little creatures.
To determine if they had missed something, the researchers checked their results against another species of hairworm and found that the second species was also missing the same sets of genes. The loss of these genes suggests that the worms lost those genes long ago due to some evolutionary trait. The belief is that these parasitic worms don’t need those functions themselves as they can rely on their host to provide those functions, thus allowing them to evolve from having it in their genes, too. It’s an intriguing find and one that will hopefully help us determine more about these intriguing little parasites.
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