2023-05-29

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Journey to the Microcosmos

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If we were to write a fable to get this moral across, it would have to star the freshwater cnidarian called the hydra. Because in the hydra, the question of butts connects to the ambiguities of immortality, which in turn relates to the befuddling matter of sexual reproduction.

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SOURCES:

https://www.notesonzoology.com/invertebrates/macrophagy-in-hydra-phylum-cnidaria/1909

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4788721/

http://www.ijdb.ehu.es/article/113461dm

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.869666/full

https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/hydras

https://esj-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1007/s11284-010-0771-6

http://www.ijdb.ehu.es/article/123509cf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6983715/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32578072/

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