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Lesbian Necrophiliac Bdelloid Rotifers (and the Scientists who Love Them): Part 1

April 30, 2009

So you’ve been having a rough decade eking out a living as a bdelloid rotifer, living in the soil, some moss, or a small vernal pool. First, it stopped raining a few days after you hatched. Then you entered a period of dried-up stasis in which your cell membranes ruptured, metabolism ground to a halt, [...]

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