Comments on: Return of the Zombie Cockroaches and the Neurosurgical Wasps http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2007/12/01/return-of-the-zombie-cockroaches-and-the-neurosurgical-wasps/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:13:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Gal Haspel http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2007/12/01/return-of-the-zombie-cockroaches-and-the-neurosurgical-wasps/#comment-6208 Gal Haspel Wed, 05 Dec 2007 21:11:46 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2007/12/01/return-of-the-zombie-cockroaches-and-the-neurosurgical-wasps/#comment-6208 Ampulex and Cockroach is such a great story! We had some guesses about the neurophysiological mechanism but now Lior Rosenberg did a great job in this paper (http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/210/24/4411) to show not only that Octopamine has this de-zombie-ing effect but also which other neuromodulators do not affect the stung cockroach. And mentioning evolution in action and parasitic systems, a paper in Nature reports an adaptive arms-race frozen in mud! (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7171/full/nature06291.html) Ampulex and Cockroach is such a great story!

We had some guesses about the neurophysiological mechanism but now Lior Rosenberg did a great job in this paper (http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/210/24/4411) to show not only that Octopamine has this de-zombie-ing effect but also which other neuromodulators do not affect the stung cockroach.

And mentioning evolution in action and parasitic systems, a paper in Nature reports an adaptive arms-race frozen in mud! (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v450/n7171/full/nature06291.html)

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