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Sacculina carcini

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• ... 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?

• Reviewed: 2003 Football League Second Division play-off Final

Created by Cwmhiraeth (talk). Self-nominated at 20:32, 16 January 2018 (UTC).

• Starting review--Kevmin § 21:30, 16 January 2018 (UTC)

• 16pxArticle 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)

• 16px Fair enough. Article good to go.--Kevmin § 09:39, 17 January 2018 (UTC)