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Published online 3 June 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030602-2
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Parasite steals host's skin
Dress sense just plain "weird".
Hannibal Lecter couldn't imagine a more cunningly macabre way to dress for dinner - a tiny insect parasite cloaks itself in its host's skin to avoid detection, researchers have found.
Fooled into thinking that the parasite is part of its own body, the host leaves the intruder to feast in peace.
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