Ant Parasite
Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 1618 , Segment 5
Sackler/Purdue, Housing Boom, Charlie Brown’s America
Episode: Sackler/Purdue, Housing Boom, Charlie Brown’s America
- Jun 10, 2021 8:00 pm
- 11:56 mins
There’s a certain type of German ant that has discovered the fountain of youth: parasites. Infected ants live three times longer than normal ones and stay youthful the whole time. Susanne Fotzik, an evolutionary biologist at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, studies this fascinating relationship.
