gynosomatic koinobiont
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oh! its gotta be for goketsuji ichizoku 2 or gaiden, that should be easy to find, you dont have to
its issue 4 june 1995 retromags.com/magazines/jpn/…
id guess "complete parasitic castration" would be co opting host reproduction for the parasite
ie entoniscid isopods whose females unravel into unrecognizale buboles and tendrils that overtake a crab's body and force it to brood their eggs, and males to have wider female abdomens
its Anilocra apogonae ex Cheilodipterus quinquelineatus doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.200…
cymothoid isopods on the fivelined cardinalfish, common ectoparasites of them, determined to be partial castrators after finding drastically lower fitness/size & fecundity in parasitized individuals
that said its fairly new research, when theyre born theyre spiky and 3mm long, resembling their pufferfish relatives, before at SOME POINT turning into the juvenile appearance that resembles adults, their ontology is fucked up and not clearly chronicled youtube.com/watch?v=Aj21HEyw…
ALT A 2.7 mm long larva of an Ocean Sunfish, Mola mola.. Source: G. David Johnson / Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
ALT A 2.7 mm long larva of an Ocean Sunfish, Mola mola.. Source: G. David Johnson / Division of Fishes, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution.
ALT A juvenile Ocean Sunfish, Mola mola, off Cape Hatteras, USA - length 27.3 mm SL. Source: Rick Winterbottom / FishWise Professional.
