The Hymenoptera

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• Captain_Button commented on A small research question
  Possibly Brian Aldiss's short story Poor Little Warrior. Though that one was a "Brontosaurus"....
• smc commented on A small research question
  Ovine Pulmonary Adenocarcinoma spreads by sheep coughing up phelgm on the grass and other sheep eating it. I mention this mostly because the diagnostic test involves a researcher grasping a sheep roughly by its hind legs, lifting it sharply, and seeing what comes out of the front of the sheep. Picture that if you will, ahh - the glamour. Also see - http://www.moredun.org.uk/research/practical-animal-health-information/disease-summaries/ovine-pulmonary-adenocarcinoma-opa-or...
• gordycoale commented on A small research question
  I think you could come up with a nasty enough scenario to make people Quiver with this one: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34857022...
• Adrian Howard commented on A small research question
  This might be of interest. A bunch of mostly-fish parasites just got reclassified as Cnidaria — the same phylum as jellyfish & sea anemones. Partially because folk spotted structures very like the stinging structures in jellyfish. http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/11/13/1511468112 Fun!...
• genomematt commented on A small research question
  I have always liked the interplay between gut bacteria and steroid hormones in normal recycling and it seems some species take this a step further and produce extra http://www.jlr.org/content/54/9/2437 In the Laundry universe excess testosterone in football crowds and aphrodisiac food poisoning would have potential to originate from the normal gut flora of others...