Cossins discusses bacterial cells. Growing up to 0.4 millimeters long, the beasts spend their days buried head-down in hair follicles gorging on who-knows-what and crawling out under cover of darkness to copulate. They have no anus, so on death disgorge a lifetime of feces into their pores. Before they lunge for the exfoliating brush: Demodex mites are far from their only microscopic residents. Their host astonishing biodiversity, from anus-less arthropods to pubic lice to all manner of bacteria and fungi, and without it they wouldn't be who they are.
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