Usually , finding a tick up your olfactory organ would n’t be a cause for celebration , but Tony Goldberg discovereda unexampled species of arachnid inside his nasal enactment — and ascertain himself a new area of cogitation .
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Goldberg , a professor of pathobiological science at the UW - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine , resisted the urge to claw his facial expression off and tweezed the leech out of his anterior naris and send it off to have its deoxyribonucleic acid sequenced . After compare the tick ’s DNA to that in the U.S. National Tick Collection at Georgia Southern University , Goldberg realise that this was either a antecedently undiscovered species of tick , or one whose DNA had never been show .
The experience also bugger off Goldberg thinking about ticks in olfactory organ as a transmitter for spreading disease . Richard Wrangham , a prof of biological anthropology at Harvard University , pointed Goldberg to photographs show a largely unremarked - upon phenomenon : young chimpanzeess with check up their olfactory organ . societal grooming activities do n’t stretch out up chimp ’ noses , so ticks hiding there are spared during the grooming procedure . Goldberg is explore how humans and chimps might share pathogens where nose - creeping ticks are concerned .
US biologist discovers raw mintage up his nose after research trip to Africa[The Independent viaBoing Boing ]
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