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Published online 29 November 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2007.312
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How to make a zombie cockroach
Researchers discover how wasps' venom makes roaches their slaves.
Researchers have worked out the neurological trick used by a species of wasp to turn cockroaches into 'zombie slaves'. The discovery explains why, once stung, cockroaches can be led by a much smaller master towards certain death.
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