14 agosto 2014
It has been speculated that soil-dwelling parasitic worms use their sense of smell to find suitable hosts for infection. New research comparing odor-driven behaviors in different roundworm species reveals that olfactory preferences reflect host specificity rather than species relatedness, suggesting that olfaction indeed plays an important role in host location.
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/5Mi1sVYmlQU/140814191943.htm
