http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/04/30/lesbian-necrophiliac-bdelloid-rotifers-and-the-scientists-who-love-them-part-1/ A blog about the weird wonderfulness of life on Earth Fri, 07 Mar 2014 01:10:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.31 http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/04/30/lesbian-necrophiliac-bdelloid-rotifers-and-the-scientists-who-love-them-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1734 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 15:17:49 +0000 http://frazer.northerncoloradogrotto.com/?p=146#comment-1734 […] And he told us of the evesdropping of kairomones — chemicals that, unlike pheromoes, used for intraspecies communication (like the moths), or allomones, which benefit the emitter of an interspecies pair (like the benzoquinones of the bombardiers or the stinking of skunks), benefit the receiver and betray the emitter. Think, for example, of the carbon dioxide that gives you away to mosquitoes; any scent, really, that betrays prey to predators can qualify. Eisner called it a “chemical gestalt”, the effect of “inevitable chemical leakage”. But the tables can also be turned. Predatory rotifers called Asplanchna unwittingly emit chemicals that alert prey rotifers called Brachionus to grow defensive spikes (read more about rotifers from this blog here and here). […]

]]> http://theartfulamoeba.com/2009/04/30/lesbian-necrophiliac-bdelloid-rotifers-and-the-scientists-who-love-them-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-1486 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:43:38 +0000 http://frazer.northerncoloradogrotto.com/?p=146#comment-1486 […] this blog’s life: Lesbian Necrophiliac Bdelloid Rotifers (and the Scientists who Love Them)(Part 1)(Part 2). The above video provides a good illustration of why they are called […]

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