The decorated theoretical physicist Max Planck is getting another posthumous accolade: his own nematode.
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| CREDIT: Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology |
The hitchhiking worm, Pristionchus maxplancki, is the first species to bear the name of the German scientist, a pioneer of quantum theory who died in 1947.
The new species measures just a millimeter long and was found piggy-backing on a stag beetle collected from an oak forest in Fukushima province, Japan. It was discovered by a group of researchers studying the self-fertilizing hermaphrodites Pristionchus pacificus at a lab in the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology.
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