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🔬🪱 Video entry | Zoology Photo/Video Comp 2025: “Hey, I am alive!” by Xuhong Chai (3rd-yr PhD). At 100×, an upside-down, invitro-reared Maritrema poulini trematode stretches and expels waste on a slide. Xuhong studies the parasite’s microbiome and its freshwater isopod hosts.
October 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
🔬🪱 Video entry | Zoology Photo/Video Comp 2025: “Hey, I am alive!” by Xuhong Chai (3rd-yr PhD). At 100×, an upside-down, invitro-reared Maritrema poulini trematode stretches and expels waste on a slide. Xuhong studies the parasite’s microbiome and its freshwater isopod hosts.