Who says scientists can't write? Moselio Schaechter finds a lovely passage about a lowly fungus from 1884.
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Moselio Schaechter, former American Society of Microbiology president, has a blog, Small Things Considered. It's pretty good. But the promo letter ASM sent around had one annoying thing (italics mine):
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First I'll note that my friend and colleague over in the Biology department, John Logsdon, has a new blog: Sex, Genes, and Evolution. He's a real live evolutionary…
and, like just about every story in biology, there's a parasite story there too. Since Pilobolus goes a progress through the guts of a cow and exits in a pile of dung and cows don't graze around such piles it has developed a kind of hydrolic rocket mechanism to launch itself from dung to grass. If that wasn't neat enough the larvae of a lungworm (can't remember which species) that also faces the problem of getting from dung to grass to cow actually invades the Pilobus fungi and gets a free ride.
How come we post about the same unusual organism on the same day?