Comments on: How tiny wasps cope with being smaller than amoebas

By: adam

adam — Sat, 07 Jul 2012 18:48:34 +0000

where are tiny blue bandanas and baggy nanopants?

Doc. T — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 22:27:03 +0000

I had no idea that amoebas were so big!

Emmanuel Flores — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 19:04:21 +0000

What I’m curious about and didn’t see it referenced in the article is how in the world is such a small insect discovered?

Eric Miller — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 17:09:22 +0000

I love articles like this. Are there many “complex” multi-celular organisms on this scale?

Adam — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:53:30 +0000

Instead of wasps, how about wisps?

Nitpick: the record-holding tiny bugs are 139 µm, not 130, (according to the article referenced).

kanzure — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 15:32:13 +0000

typo “or its neural nuclei” should probably be “of its neural nuclei” ?

Hank Pym — Wed, 04 Jul 2012 12:06:25 +0000

Blah blah science blah blah WRONG. The answer is Pym Particles.

Don Cox — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 14:11:40 +0000

Nanowasps.

Erin H. — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 21:50:36 +0000

I wonder what the gut microbiome in these guys looks like (if it exists). I’m picturing a crowded elevator.

Mark Fahey — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:24:07 +0000

Looks like the glia cells are also denucleated? Or do they pick up some of the protein-producing slack? I don’t have access to the paper myself.