We Missed The Rain, And Interesting Dactylogyrids

It's been a very busy week, I've spent a strange amount of time working on our department's search for three new faculty. As usual, this involves a variety of totally unexpected twists and turns. But, I'll have to tell you later. Also, it rained almost six inches this week, so we were lucky to get out to the Flint last Friday; the river has been at flood stage much of the past week.

We had a lab meeting yesterday, and Robert talked about his work with the darters and parasites. He showed some really good digital photos he has at various magnifications of these parasites, and for the first time I fully realize that they're different from the Dactylogyrus we found on the telescope shiners. The posterior end with the haptor hooks is much more flared in the darter parasites, and we probably have several different species that have to be sorted out on the various darter species. So it's good, we have something.