{"id":2482,"date":"2013-04-25T19:32:28","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T19:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2018\/12\/24\/2464-revision-v1\/"},"modified":"2019-07-14T02:23:37","modified_gmt":"2019-07-14T02:23:37","slug":"science-review-animal-self-medication-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/04\/25\/science-review-animal-self-medication-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Science Review: Animal self-medication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Concept<\/strong>: Animal self-medication.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Source<\/strong>: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/340\/6129\/150\">Perspective\u00a0in Science<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(April 12, 2013).<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><strong>Background<\/strong>: Self-medication (incl. prophylactic) can be administered to self, inter-generational (e.g. fruit flies lay preferentially in high ethanol foods following detection of parasitoid* wasps), social (e.g. anti-microbial resin incorporated by wood ants into nest). Criteria include that it must be costly (thus not employed when healthy\/low-risk).<\/li>\n<li><strong>An Implication<\/strong>: Expected to affect the evolution of the immune system by providing an (implicitly evolutionarily cheaper) alternative, possibly resulting in reduction\/loss of a cellular\/humoral response.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">*PS. Parasitoid\u00a0(noun) is an insect whose larvae live as parasites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts<\/strong>:\u00a0What does\/would Homo sapien self-medication look like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concept: Animal self-medication. Source: Perspective\u00a0in Science\u00a0(April 12, 2013). Background: Self-medication (incl. prophylactic) can be administered to self, inter-generational (e.g. fruit flies lay preferentially in high ethanol foods following detection of parasitoid* wasps), social (e.g. anti-microbial resin incorporated by wood ants into nest). Criteria include that it must be costly (thus not employed when healthy\/low-risk). An [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[159,242,16,17],"tags":[],"metadata":[],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-evernote-entries","category-science","category-science-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2473,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/04\/12\/science-review-continuum-of-senses-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":2482,"position":0},"title":"Science Review: Continuum of senses","author":"Pala","date":"April 12, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"A News Focus covering a trend identified at a conference: opsins (light-responsive GPCRs) are found in myriad tissues, including\u00a0primitive\u00a0phylogenies (incl. sea-urchins and jelly-fish). 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This has existential and practical implications, and leads consciousness to prove its assumptions: testing science,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;All Posts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"All Posts","link":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/all-posts\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2481,"url":"https:\/\/thetravellerslastjourney.com\/shai\/2013\/04\/22\/science-review-imperfect-sensory-information-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":2482,"position":3},"title":"Science Review: Imperfect sensory information","author":"Pala","date":"April 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Concept: Imperfect sensory information. Source: A Nature News & Views, referencing recent original research from Science\u00a0(April 5, 2013). 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