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“Due to the pandemic, during the lockdowns most of us were home, with our laboratory closed,” said Jean-Lou Justine, a professor at the National Museum of National History in Paris, in a news release. “No field expeditions were possible. I convinced my colleagues to gather all the information we had about these flatworms, do the computer analyses, and finally write this very long paper.”