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==Daodan-Chrysalis==

Muro and Mai got implanted with prototypes, indeed, but after more than 15 years I think the Syndicate accomplished to developed a Daodan allowing its mass production. This second generation would be independent from the host's sex (XX / YX chromosomes) and metagenome's composition by providing level-zero stem cells. These can target any compatible symbiont cell and then do a “configuration” (whereby they dissolve the unnecessary genetic material) to become classic stem cells.

Muro und Mai wurden Prototypen implantiert, richtig, aber nach mehr als 15 Jahren glaube ich, dass das Syndikat es schafft eine Daodan für die Massenproduktion zu entwickeln. Diese zweite Generation würde durch sogenannte Level-Null-Stammzellen unabhängig vom Geschlecht des Wirts und der Zusammensetzung des mikrobischen Metagenoms sein. Diese Zellen würden jede kompatible Symbiontenzelle zum Ziel haben und nach einer „Konfiguration“ (in welcher sie überflüssiges genetisches Material auflösen) zu klassischen Stammzellen werden.

The following subsections are meant to show what symbiosis is capable of and that it exist between very different species. Therefore those sections display combinations of the so-called [[wikipedia:Kingdom_%28biology%29#Six_kingdoms|kingdoms]].

Unfortunately, viruses are unranked so far. But in my layman understanding they would form the fourth domain and seventh kingdom of live.

: Are viruses lifeforms?

: The problem is that they are neither really dead nor alive. They are ''zombies'' so to say. They do nothing until they infect a suitable host cell and becomes active again. Living things were thought to have always an active metabolism. Then [[wikipedia:Tardigrade|tardigrades]] have been found out to break that rule with their cryptobiosis ("hidden life"). In that stage their metabolism is almost too low for measures [[wikipedia:Cryptobiosis#Examples|(under 0,01%)]]. After that discovery scientists had the rethink the definition of death. The microbes' state of temporary ''death'' became some kind of ''hibernation'', namely cryptobiosis, and some Christians were happy that their religion was the solo promise again for resurrection.

: A virus cannot reproduce itself without a host but that also true for some endoparasites (parasitic organisms in other organisms). And a virus has no own metabolism but can take over the host's metabolism and organelles. In this view a virus might be a very mean and cleaver bastard but it lives.

: So a virus makes the host its ''own body''; '''the news are''' that there also exist '''symbiotic viruses'''. These have not taken over a host cell but sorta vice versa: they became fully incorporated into the host's genome. Two examples: First, the [[wikipedia:Polydnavirus|polydnavirus]] inside of ichneumonid (parasitic) wasps is only produced when the wasps lay eggs into a caterpillar. The virus helps the wasp eggs to survive inside the caterpillar by affecting the immune system and changing the metabolism in advantages of the wasp eggs. The second example is about us humans (and all animals with a placenta). The retrovirus [[wikipedia:ERVWE1|ERVWE1]] in our genome merge placenta cells by its produced protein "syncytin" to create a protection layer. That way the embryo keeps untouched by the mother's immune system. It could be discovered as foreign body because of the father's genes. The retrovirus gives us an advantage compared to non-placental mammals.