{"id":5739,"date":"2012-05-15T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-15T21:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mlmlblog.wordpress.com\/?p=5739"},"modified":"2021-01-01T20:27:38","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T04:27:38","slug":"the-unseen-elkhorn-slough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/2012\/05\/15\/the-unseen-elkhorn-slough\/","title":{"rendered":"The Unseen Elkhorn Slough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-5739\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-5739-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-5739-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-5739-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_sow-editor panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\tclass=\"so-widget-sow-editor so-widget-sow-editor-base\"\n\t\t\t\n\t\t>\n<div class=\"siteorigin-widget-tinymce textwidget\">\n\t<p>By Gabriela Navas, <a title=\"Invertebrate Zoology Lab\" href=\"http:\/\/invert.mlml.calstate.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Invertebrate Zoology Lab<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Every time you find yourself walking along the beautiful Elkhorn Slough, do you admire all you see? I guess we would have a conversation about the birds, crabs, even the occasional fish you may have seen. What about the snails? Oh yes, what about them? They are actually intermediate hosts to unseen residents of the slough, the trematode <em>Cercaria batillariae<\/em>. Trematodes are also known as flukes, and even though they may have a bad rap in some circles, they merit respect. Their life cycles involve sometimes one or more hosts, specialized to supplying different needs of the trematode. Some trematodes are even known to take over a snail body and mind modifying its behavior in order to get to its next host! Check this out this video on the trematode species <em>Leucochloridium<\/em> making \u201cSNAIL ZOMBIES\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>Snail Zombies? You may think primitive, but in fact trematodes have recently been shown to show the ability to form caste systems just like your everyday ant or bee. According to Hechinger et al this is the first time this has been shown in flatworms.<\/p>\n<p>So, next time we take a stroll around the slough - let\u2019s chat about the unseen, shall we?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriela Navas, Invertebrate Zoology Lab Every time you find yourself walking along the beautiful Elkhorn Slough, do you admire all you see? I guess we would have a conversation about the birds, crabs, even the occasional fish you may have seen. What about the snails? Oh yes, what about them? They are actually intermediate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":291,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-5739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drop-inblog","tag-invertebrates"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"MLML Student Life","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/291"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21185,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions\/21185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mlml.sjsu.edu\/student-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}