Ka taƙaita labarin:  Masu bincike sun gano cewa, ƙwari da ake kira 'zombie' zai iya sa dabbobi su zama masu cin naman mutane. Masu bincike sun bincika cin naman mutane a tsakanin shrimp na ruwa mai zaki a Ireland ta Arewa. Sun gano wani karamin kwayar cuta, Pleistophora mulleri, ba wai kawai ya kara yawan cin naman mutane a tsakanin shrimps ba, amma ya sanya shrimps masu kamuwa da cutar sun fi cin abinci, suna daukar lokaci kadan don cinye wadanda suka kamu da su. Wani karamin kwayar cuta, Pleistophora mulleri, ya kara yawan cin naman mutane a tsakanin shrimps - kuma ya sa su ci cikin hauka. Dokta Alison Dunn ta ce: 'Bincikenmu ba ya nuna wata alaƙa tsakanin ƙwayoyin cuta da cin naman mutane. 'Akwai shaidar cewa kwayoyin cuta na iya shafar halayyar mutum. "Binciken da Dokta Glenn McConkey ya jagoranta, shi ma daga Jami'ar Leeds Faculty of Biological Sciences, ya nuna cewa kwayar cutar Toxoplasma gondii kai tsaye tana shafar sinadarin kwakwalwar mutum. 'Duk da haka, cin naman kaza ga shrimp, ba kamar a cikin mutane ba, babban tushen abinci ne har ma a cikin dabbobin da ba su da cutar. 'Da alama ba zai yiwu ba cewa kwayar cuta za ta kasance a ƙarƙashin matsin juyin halitta don rinjayar cin naman mutane.' Masu bincike daga Jami'ar Leeds, Jami'ar Sarauniya ta Belfast da Jami'ar Stellenbosch a Afirka ta Kudu sun wallafa bincikensu a cikin Royal Society Open Science a yau. Sun gano wani karamin kwayar cuta, Pleistophora mulleri, ba wai kawai ya kara yawan cin naman mutane ba ne a cikin shrimp na gida Gammarus duebeni celticus amma ya sanya shrimp mai kamuwa da cutar ya zama mai cin abinci, yana ɗaukar lokaci kaɗan don cinye waɗanda suka kamu da su. Dokta Alison Dunn, Malamin Ilimin Ilimin Ilimin Juyin Halitta a Jami'ar Leeds' Faculty of Biological Sciences, wanda ya jagoranci binciken, ya ce: 'Cannibalism a zahiri ya zama gama gari a cikin yanayi. Aikinmu shi ne bincike na farko da ya yi tambaya game da ko cin naman mutane yana shafar kasancewa da ƙwayoyin cuta.' Binciken, wanda aka buga a Royal Society Open Science a yau, ya ba da rahoton cewa kodayake cin abincin matasa da manya ke yi na al'ada ne na tsarin cin abincin shrimp, shrimp da ke fama da kwayar cutar sun ci sau biyu na irin nasu kamar dabbobi marasa kamuwa da cutar. Sun kai hari kan kananan shrimps...
Ƙananan ƙwayoyin cuta, Pleistophora mulleri, ya ƙaru sosai cannibalism. ya sanya shrimps masu kamuwa da cutar sun fi cin abinci, suna ɗaukar lokaci kaɗan don cinye waɗanda suka kamu da su.