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Ben Jennings on Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the supreme court – cartoon https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2018/oct/07/ben-jennings-on-brett-kavanaughs-confirmation-to-the-supreme-court-cartoon?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other View in LinkedIn

LATERAL MOVE. "To the best of our knowledge, these eukaryotic-like domains have never before been reported in packaged bacteriophages and their phylogeny, distribution and sequence diversity imply lateral transfers between bacteriophage/prophage and animal genomes." https://lnkd.in/dYh3-r4 View in LinkedIn

EVOLUTION OF DEATH FROM IMMORTALITY. "The above results thus support our hypothesis that originally immortal organisms evolve into mortal organisms by acquiring a new genetic program for autonomous death." http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.657.723&rep=rep1&type=pdf View in LinkedIn

HIJACKED GENES. "We suggest that the evolution of these eukaryotic protein domains in bacteriophage WO parallels the evolution of eukaryotic genes in canonical eukaryotic viruses, namely those commandeered for viral life cycle adaptations." Curiously, skipping strict domains. https://lnkd.in/dYh3-r4 View in LinkedIn

SLOWLY DOMINANT MUTANT MORTALS. "Our findings suggest that a mortal organism, born among a population of immortal organisms, cannot reproduce and becomes extinct in many cases. Nonetheless, a number of mortal organisms did manage to survive at a small but significant rate. Moreover, once a mortal organism survives, it extends its habitation area, surpasses immortal organisms and prospers without exception." http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.657.723&rep=rep1&type=pdf View in LinkedIn

ANIMAL TO PHAGE. "These various protein domain families are central to eukaryotic functions and have never before been reported in packaged bacteriophages, and their phylogeny, distribution and sequence diversity implies lateral transfer from animal to bacteriophage genomes." https://lnkd.in/dYh3-r4 View in LinkedIn

MORTALITY BREEDS COMPLEXITY. "We take note of the fact that mortal organisms endowed with programmed self-decomposition are more complex than immortal organisms in both structural and functional aspects, and that the former can better increase the prosperity of their offspring than the latter can." http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.657.723&rep=rep1&type=pdf View in LinkedIn

EYE OF NEWT AND TOE OF FROG. "By sequencing full genomes from purified bacteriophage WO particles of Wolbachia, we discover a novel eukaryotic association module with various animal proteins domains, such as the black widow latrotoxin-CTD, that are uninterrupted in intact bacteriophage genomes, enriched with eukaryotic protease cleavage sites, and combined with additional domains to forge some of the largest bacteriophage genes (up to 14,256 bp)." (Macbeth Act IV Scene I). https://lnkd.in/dYh3-r4 View in LinkedIn

MORTALS, IMMORTALS AND MUTANTS. "Our findings suggest that, in the case of a mortal organism appearing among a population of immortal organisms as a mutant which evolutionarily acquires a genetic program for death by means of self-decomposition, this organism and its surviving offspring surpass immortal organisms and eventually prosper with adaptive divergence under various environmental conditions within a certain probability." http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.657.723&rep=rep1&type=pdf View in LinkedIn

MODEL OF AUTONOMOUS DEATH. "We formed the hypothesis that originally immortal terrestrial organisms evolve into ones that are programmed for autonomous death. We then conducted simulation experiments in which we examined this hypothesis using an artificial ecosystem that we designed to refer to a terrestrial ecosystem endowed with Artificial Chemistry." https://lnkd.in/dtsPf9E View in LinkedIn