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wattengard on Nov 11, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: How does a parasite create zombie-like behavior?

Isn't this the fungus that's the inspration for the Last of Us videogame?

neonbat on Nov 11, 2015 | [–]

The fungus in her abstract is a type of cordyceps.

dluan on Nov 11, 2015 | | [–]

Turns out, many types of fungus have evolved to be parasites of some kind. It's very rare that a parasite actually changes the behavior of the host.

balls187 on Nov 11, 2015 | [–]

Yes.

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