Comments on: Even Blood Flukes Get Divorced http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/ A science salon hosted by National Geographic Magazine Tue, 21 May 2013 05:01:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2-alpha By: Kudzu http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-41312 Kudzu Wed, 27 Feb 2013 08:45:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-41312 Are they specific to humans? Would blocking transmission to\from humans cause their extinction?

]]> By: The End of the Affair | Life in the Fast Lane http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-26834 The End of the Affair | Life in the Fast Lane Wed, 09 Sep 2009 02:27:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-26834 [...] Or maybe not… According to Carl Zimmer, Even Blood Flukes Get Divorced. [...]

]]> By: » The End of the Affair Life in the Fast Lane http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-26833 » The End of the Affair Life in the Fast Lane Fri, 27 Mar 2009 13:43:29 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-26833 [...] maybe not… According to Carl Zimmer, Even Blood Flukes Get Divorced. Posted in Infectious disease, tropical medcine. Tags: carl zimmer, divorce schistosome, fluke, [...]

]]> By: Open Lab | The Loom | Discover Magazine http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-26832 Open Lab | The Loom | Discover Magazine Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:15:26 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-26832 [...] The latest edition of Open Lab, the annual anthology of science blogging, is coming out soon. Here is the line-up. Thanks to the editors for including my post on love and betrayal among the blood flukes. [...]

]]> By: AEQUANIMITAS » Blog Archive » So much for true love… http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-26831 AEQUANIMITAS » Blog Archive » So much for true love… Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:30:38 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-26831 [...] Or maybe not… According to Carl Zimmer, Even Blood Flukes Get Divorced. [...]

]]> By: The Open Laboratory 2008 - and the Winners are….. [A Blog Around The Clock] http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-26830 The Open Laboratory 2008 - and the Winners are….. [A Blog Around The Clock] Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:27:00 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-26830 [...] The Loom: Even Blood Flukes Get Divorced [...]

]]> By: luca http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-26829 luca Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:00:52 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-26829 I feel tired of late. I guess diving in those Rwandese lakes last December wasn’t that clever, uh?

Crap…

]]> By: Ross http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-26828 Ross Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:33:06 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-26828 The thing that surprises and concerns me most is how long these flukes are able to live and procreating. I guess longevity has been selected for.

The extent to which couple ‘wifeswap’ will be a function of how many flukes there are in the host person. The more often a pair of flukes meets another pair, or a single, the more chances there will be for a female to decide to change partners if the new male is less related to her than the present male partner is. We don’t know what happens if the preferred new male already has a female partner. Maybe the females swap, maybe they fight. Over time, several partnerships will be entered into and that is going to produce eggs with a wide genetic range. No wonder the blood flukes are so hard to treat medically.

Does this suggest a research avenue of trying to find a way to disrupt the attachment of females to males? If the hosts coulfd be inoculated with an inhibitor for fluke mating it could make a big difference in a couple of (human) generations.

]]> By: Christopher Taylor http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-26827 Christopher Taylor Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:03:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-26827 Anne – the person would have almost certainly been infected by multiple flukes. The point is that however many flukes ther are, the last time they could have possibly entered the host would have been forty years previously.

]]> By: Monado in Toronto http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-26826 Monado in Toronto Wed, 08 Oct 2008 18:58:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/10/08/even-blood-flukes-get-divorced/#comment-26826 Exogamy rules!

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