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POSSIBLY WIDESPREAD. “Highly complex modular ascaroside assemblies are not restricted to C. elegans and have also been characterized in the necromenic Pristionchus pacificus that is associated with scarab beetles. While the general building blocks utilized by C. elegans and P. pacificus are somewhat similar, the resulting modular assemblies are highly species-specific.” https://lnkd.in/d4DhYhz View in LinkedIn

WORD CONTEXTS. “Overlapping mixtures of these pheromones affect the development of the worm and a variety of different behaviors.” https://lnkd.in/dXsN6Pj View in LinkedIn

MANY DECORATIONS. “The ascaroside core structures originating from peroxisomal β-oxidation serve as scaffolds for the highly species-specific attachment of additional building blocks originating from diverse primary metabolic pathways, including fatty acid, citric acid, amino acid, carbohydrate, and nucleoside metabolism, to generate highly complex modular assemblies.” https://lnkd.in/d4DhYhz View in LinkedIn

CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATIONS. “Downstream of the canonical β-oxidation cycle the basic ascarosides can undergo various species-specific modifications, thus giving rise to a large diversity of unique signaling molecules that represent the chemical language of nematodes.” https://lnkd.in/d4DhYhz View in LinkedIn

UNKNOWN “Ascarosides comprise a family of small signaling molecules that have been shown to regulate important events and behaviors in the life history of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. Although the different roles of individual ascarosides appear to be determined by the variances in chemical structure, the mechanisms by which ascarosides are synthesized as well as the locations in which ascarosides are produced within the worm are largely unknown.” https://lnkd.in/dGAHbZv View in LinkedIn

DIGITAL LIFE. "Tom Ray's story about the program Project Tierra generating random mutations in code and beyond. Why can you mutate genetic code and not computer code? The genetic language consists of an alphabet of 20 letters, whereas the computer language has billions of letters in its alphabet. So you can rearrange 20 letters and get a meaningful word, but it is harder to do that with billions of letters." https://lnkd.in/d_8VqjV View in LinkedIn

"THOMAS S. RAY "is an ecologist who created and developed the Tierra project, a computer simulation of artificial life. He is currently Professor of Zoology and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma in Norman." https://lnkd.in/dK7aRa2 View in LinkedIn

VIRAL WORMS. "He will keep on breeding them until he has achieved a goal far more adventurous than anything yet attempted by other virus programmers – infusing the vast unused spaces of the global computer networks with a roiling digital ecology as complex, as fascinating, and ultimately as beneficial to humankind as the rain forests that he has long sought to protect and understand." https://lnkd.in/edrARjk View in LinkedIn

"TOM RAY was one of the pioneers of virtual artificial life evolution with his program called Tierra. He set up Tierra Network to exploit the internet. His results were mixed and gave limited insights into the Cambrian explosion of life." https://lnkd.in/dssAfsd View in LinkedIn

"A HACKER is an aesthete. There are specialties within computer hacking. An algorithm hacker knows all about the best algorithm for any problem. A system hacker knows about designing and maintaining operating systems. And a “password hacker'' knows how to find out someone else's password." https://lnkd.in/dF3neaQ View in LinkedIn