If only Mankind had such foresight, Mr Worf...
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Like head lice, body > lice attach themselves to human hosts and live off their blood. Unlike head > lice, however, body lice can spread bacterial diseases. By understanding > more about the creature, the team hopes to develop better methods of > controlling it. > > Coordinated by University of Illinois entomology professor Barry > Pittendrig, the scientists discovered a very limited genome. Body lice > already have the smallest known genome of any insect, but because they’re > designed to do almost nothing except live in people's clothes and drink > their blood... well, let’s just say they haven’t exactly kept their options > open. Besides having very few genes for light-sensing protein receptors, for > instance, they also have fewer taste and odor receptors than other insects. > > It also has the smallest number of detoxification enzymes observed in any > insect, which could make it an ideal candidate for testing resistance to > pesticides. > > The body louse is dependent on its human host for survival, but is just as > reliant on a microbe that lives within *it* - the bacterium Candidatus > Riesia pediculicola. In the Riesa genome, the team found genes for the > production of the nutrient pantothenate (Vitamin B5), which the louse > requires and cannot make on its own. Because it has evolved in such an > unchanging environment, Riesa has no resistance to antibiotics. If this > bacterium could be controlled, then the body louse population would follow. > > The Riesa genome is quite small compared to its closest relatives. The same > can be said of the genomes of several other bacteria found on body lice, > which are known to spread diseases including typhus, relapsing fever, and > trench fever. This fact, according to the research team, “will make the body > louse a useful tool for understanding the co-evolution of disease-carrying > parasites and their bacterial co-conspirators.” > > The research was recently published in *Proceedings of the National > Academy of Sciences* <http://www.pnas.org/>. > > > -- > Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! > Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ > > -- "If all the world's a stage and we are merely players, who the bloody hell wrote the script?" -- Charles E Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik
