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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

MISSING REFERENCE FOR TODAY. " "Are Internal, Death-Promoting Mechanisms Ever Adaptive?" "John W Pepper, Deborah E Shelton, Armin Rashidi and Pierre M Durand View in LinkedIn

EXAPTATIONS OF HOST GENES. "We suggest that the possible acquistion and retooling of intact eukaryotic-like domains in phage WO could be viewed as analogous to the commandeering of host genes by eukaryotic viruses. Whether lateral genetic transfers between metazoans and bacteriophages are common in the symbiotic virosphere remains to be determined." https://lnkd.in/dYh3-r4 View in LinkedIn

NEW GENE SHARING DOMAINS. "The findings here reveal the bacteriophage WO attachment and bacterial integration sites as well as evidence for gene sharing between metazoan hosts and phages of obligate intracellular bacteria." https://lnkd.in/dYh3-r4 View in LinkedIn

PHAGE SUCCESS. "Rather than simply act as virulence factors to benefit their bacterial host, their massive proportion of genomic real estate (up to 60% of the prophage genome) implies that they may be necessary to phage biology and likely have a direct impact on phage propagation." https://lnkd.in/dYh3-r4 View in LinkedIn