Template:Did you know nominations/Sacculina carcini
- The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.
The result was: promoted by FITINDIA 15:37, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
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Sacculina carcini
[edit]- ... that the crab hacker barnacle is a parasite of crabs and manipulates its host into caring for its eggs?
- ALT1:... that the crab hacker barnacle lives inside a crab and manipulates its host's behaviour so that the crab cares for the parasite's eggs?
Created by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 20:32, 16 January 2018 (UTC).
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Article new enough and long enough. Hook cited and verified to the source (pg 757). No policy issues are identified and no copy-violation is detected. Possibly going with a hook involving the sex-reversal in males when S. carcini is removed could make a fun hook?--Kevmin § 23:41, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
- It's a fascinating parasite but I found it difficult to devise a suitable hook mentioning male sex change. After all, it was under experimental conditions and the male developed "ovarian tissue", which you cannot really equate to becoming female. Cwmhiraeth (talk) 09:12, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
