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it's #arachnews time! in my weekly roundup of arachnid photos, art, news, and science:
- sweet and/or gruesome Valentines content
- Lucas the Spider makes the jump to Cartoon Network
- cool discoveries about spider & mite microbiomes
- Asian net-casting spiders get reclassified
…and more!
https://medium.com/arachnofiles/arachnews-february-17-2020-e1ea4334abe6?source=friends_link&sk=4d8ab1f2f101c72586e95c3cbd6d7ec8 [CW spiders…perhaps obviously…]
@clifstan @nev @carcinopithecus that is how the Wolbachia bacteria do.
@nev @carcinopithecus I've read about a variety of Wolbachia weirdnesses before but I'd missed or forgotten the "become a sex chromosome" one.
@nev @carcinopithecus
"In at least one case, Wolbachia inserted itself into a pillbug genome and became a new sex chromosome." !!!