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BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION. "Many animals, including a wide variety of insects, have transovarial (i.e., via the egg to the embryo) transmission of bacterial partners. Whereas developmentally important symbioses have been documented throughout the postembryonic (larval and juvenile) stages of vertebrate and arthropod life cycles, the roles of symbiotic microbes during normal embryonic development are just beginning to be studied." http://www.pnas.org/content/110/9/3229.full View in LinkedIn

SUPERORGANISM. "A colony of ants, however, is a sophisticated complex system, a “superorganism” in which the components work together to accomplish difficult and complicated goals." http://natureofcode.com/book/chapter-6-autonomous-agents/ View in LinkedIn

SYMBIOTIC PROBIOTICS IN SHRIMP. "Several animals recruit specific bacteria to their embryonic surfaces to provide protection against potential pathogens. For example, the shrimp Palaemon macrodactylus is protected from the fungus Lagenidium callinectes by 2,3-indolinedione that is produced by an Alteromonas sp. on the embryo’s surface." http://www.pnas.org/content/110/9/3229.full View in LinkedIn

SIMPLE UNITS."An ant is an autonomous agent; it can perceive its environment (using antennae to gather information about the direction and strength of chemical signals) and make decisions about how to move based on those signals. But can a single ant acting alone build a nest, gather food, defend its queen? An ant is a simple unit and can only perceive its immediate environment." https://lnkd.in/egvy92W View in LinkedIn

SELF AND NON-SELF. "From their earliest stages of development, animals use sophisticated mechanisms to manage their microbial environment. Physical barriers, such as capsules, chorions, and mucus, protect eggs by excluding microbes, and chemical barriers, including antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), shape the composition of the associated microbiota." http://www.pnas.org/content/110/9/3229.full View in LinkedIn

MOBILE AGENTS. "In computer science, a mobile agent is a composition of computer software and data which is able to migrate (move) from one computer to another autonomously and continue its execution on the destination computer." https://lnkd.in/eziiUqw View in LinkedIn

ONE THIRD IS MICROBIAL. "As much as a third of an animal’s metabolome—i.e., the diversity of molecules carried in its blood—has a microbial origin." https://lnkd.in/dbY8TYa View in LinkedIn

DIVINATION. "Still, the decision-making capability that Unanimous AI has tapped into is impressive. The UNU platform has been remarkably accurate so far in predicting the outcome of things like last year's Oscars, the Superbowl and even political races." http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-artificial-swarm-intelligence-uses-people-to-make-better-predictions-than-experts/ View in LinkedIn

VERY HIGH GENE EXCHANGE IN GUT. "Human-associated bacteria have a 25-fold higher rate of gene transfer than do bacteria in other environments, highlighting the important role of gene transfer in host-associated bacterial communities." http://www.pnas.org/content/110/9/3229.full View in LinkedIn

VERY HIGH GENE EXCHANGE IN GUT. "Human-associated bacteria have a 25-fold higher rate of gene transfer than do bacteria in other environments, highlighting the important role of gene transfer in host-associated bacterial communities." https://lnkd.in/dbY8TYa View in LinkedIn