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Warming climate supercharging parasite lifecycle

Schistocephalus solidus, a parasitic worm that infects fish, has been found to grow much more rapidly at higher temperatures, alarming scientists who warn that warming oceans could see the worm decimate fish populations. The new research into S. solidus’lifecycle has been published in the journalGlobal Change Biology. The work provides some of the first evidence […]

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