Mitochondrial fission regulates midgut muscle assembly and tick feeding capacity
I am regularly awestruck by the feats accomplished by our fellow animals. Here’s one that might not seem particularly praiseworthy: eating your body weight in a single meal. This is regularly achieved by ticks, and that’s a second reason you might want to stop reading, but hear me out. A tick gorges itself on blood (perhaps yours) until it has ballooned to at least ONE HUNDRED TIMES its pre-meal body weight. How is this even possible? Specifically, how does this…
