🧠🧬 EXTENDED REFERENCES: Deep Cuts for the Brave & Brain-Hungry

Welcome, curious cryptobiologists and undead academics! This is your backstage pass to the science, history, and creepy footnotes behind each episode of Mutant Hollow. Whether you’re double-checking our claims, planning your thesis on zombie virology, or just want to impress your local coven—this is for you.

🧟‍♀️ EPISODE 1: The Fungus Among Us (Cordyceps & Fungal Mind Control)

Primary Sources:

Hughes et al. (2011) – Behavioral symptoms in zombie ants Evans et al. (2011) – Four new Ophiocordyceps species de Bekker et al. (2014) – Ant brain manipulation by fungus Loreto & Hughes (2019) – Preserved ant brains

🏺 EPISODE 1.5: Infectious Tangent – Pharaoh’s Curse & Mummy Dust Rituals

Historical Pigment Use & “Mummy Brown”:

Harley, R. D. (2001) – Artists’ Pigments c.1600–1835 Eastaugh et al. (2008) – Pigment Compendium Ball, P. (2001) – Bright Earth: The Invention of Colour Museum of Fine Arts, Boston – Paint sample studies

Note: The moss-wine-skull ritual references come from folklore and extrapolated speculative research with no verified archaeological basis—because we like it weird.

🧬 EPISODE 2: Will It Zombie? Rabies Edition

Rabies Pathogenesis:

Jackson (2013) – Modern rabies therapy overview Hemachudha et al. (2002) – Neuropathogenic rabies Hossain et al. (2012) – Chemokine signaling in rabid brains Warrell & Warrell (2004) – Clinical management of rabies

Therapeutic Use of Rabies Virus:

Yin et al. (2013) – Rabies virus against glioma Preuss & Wong (2019) – Oncolytic virus therapy

Milwaukee Protocol:

Willoughby et al. (2005) – Coma-induced rabies survival Hankins & Rosekrans (2004) – Rabies overview

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