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These either reinfect other cells or are excreted in the louse's feces.
There they multiply until the cells burst, releasing hordes of rickettsiae into the louse's intestinal canal.
The adaptation is so precise that when a louse's host species evolves into a new one, the louse will diversify into different species, too.
The infection kills the louse, but people are commonly infected by scratching a louse bite, thus rubbing the louse's infected feces into the wound by abrasion.
Despite this hint of a wood louse's moldiness creeping into my day, I pressed on, to look around a bit on my own.
You can spend all day without noticing the feel of your shirt collar on your neck, and yet a single stray thread poking out, or a louse's fine legs brushing by, can set you scratching furiously.
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Stéphane Roy's set, with tall spiky stilts spread across the rear of the stage, suggests a forest of bamboo, or a louse's-eye view of a porcupine's hide.
"In 'Madame Bovary,' " he remarked, "all I was after was to render a special tone, that color of the moldiness of a wood-louse's existence".
Gustave Flaubert reportedly once said that he wrote his novels to resemble a particular color".In 'Madame Bovary,' " he remarked, "all I was after was to render a special tone, that color of the moldiness of a wood-louse's existence".
A team led by Brendan Connors, a behavioral ecologist at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, Canada, has now shown that the sea lice's knack for dispersal goes even further.
This means, the researchers conclude, that the lice's hosts, presumably the ancestors of today's birds and mammals, also existed at that time.
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