C. elegans matricidal offspring

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Uploaded by on Jun 1, 2009

The video shows a baby worm trapped inside its mother's body. This happens when the egg hatches in a starved mother. The phenomenon has been studied by some biologists, and is called "endotokia matricida", "intra-uterine hatching", "matricidal hatching".

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