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    How do tapeworms avoid being digested by their host?

    Question #59020. Asked by gmackematix. (Aug 25 05 5:58 PM)


    lanfranco

    		Yuck, gmack. But the answer seems to involve excellent adaptation to the environment and a continuous recreation of a "new coat" that is resistant to the host's digestive enzymes:

    http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/feb2001/983141879.Mi.r.html

    Aug 25 05, 6:10 PM
    gmackematix

    		Thanks Frankie. Seen, read and inwardly digested.

    Aug 25 05, 6:15 PM

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