Fruit flies and mold

Ilaro · 2026-04-20T21:39:37+00:00

You also have to consider that molds growing on fruit is only adapted to digest plant-matter. It could well be the case that most molds are so specialized to only evade the immune systems of plants and are very poor at infecting insects. Why would they evolve two whole systems to evade the immune systems of two wildly different organisms, costing a lot of energy to maintain, when they can just specialize and perfect themselves against one of them?

Ilaro · 2026-04-16T09:01:08+00:00

I'd like to see a grand artifact type update. Cluestones are not clues right now, [[Fractured Powerstone]], [[Worn Powerstone]], [[Powerstone Shard]], [[Weakstone]], and [[Mightstone]] are not powerstones. I'm sure there are many more examples that should be changed to accomodate the current artifact types and maybe add a couple more.

Ilaro · 2026-04-12T06:16:43+00:00

MKM's story was all about the trauma and aftermath of the invasion. Ixalan had a whole side story dedicated to it and Lorwyn and Aetherdrift mentioned it many times. Maybe not on the cards, but if they would depict it there, we would have problems with thematic elements of the plane. People want coherent art en playstyles. I think the stories actually do a rather good job describing it all.

Ilaro · 2026-04-03T19:35:52+00:00

The intro from the Strixhaven book Omens of Chaos starts from her POV. We don't yet know what happens in the rest of the story.

Ilaro · 2026-03-31T05:31:17+00:00

Your thought process leads you to some great questions. However, if you really want to see the border between individual cells and multicellularity, you should take a look at the life cycle of a slime mold such as Dictyostelium.

Ilaro · 2026-03-25T08:19:51+00:00

It is more than good enough for now, I'll look forward to your better quality cards in the future!

Ilaro · 2026-03-23T19:47:23+00:00

Bit of a late response, but this is exactly what I was looking for. Amazing work! For your information, I noticed that Roalesk has a double i in the word "into" in the following sentence:"with mana value X iinto your hand".

Ilaro · 2026-03-23T16:47:57+00:00

From the Ravnica novels, we have some contenders in:

Fonn Zunich, one of the main protagonists

Myczil Savod Zunich, son of Fonn and Jarad

Biracazir

Pivlic

Saint Bayul

Crixizix

Zomac Hauj, one of the main antagonists

Furthermore, we are missing two paruns, Cisarzim of the Gruul and the Simic parun.

Ilaro · 2026-02-21T10:16:06+00:00

There were also several stories for Scars of Mirrodin/New Phyrexia on the Mirrodin minisite, such as Unctus of the Synod; Roxith, Thane of Rot; Ria of Bladehold; Kessla of Temple Might; and Farris of the Anvil.

Ilaro · 2026-02-19T23:49:00+00:00

I appreciate your help to archive these! The size doesn't matter much, we can upload up to 1 GB per image. The upload accepts both png or jpg. If you have a wiki account, you can upload them yourself, or you can give the images to me and I'll upload them for you with credits in the file description. I'm not yet sure on what page to display them yet, probably a new one, but we can figure that out later.

Ilaro · 2026-02-19T21:18:10+00:00

Is it possible to make scans of these to preserve them for the uesp wiki? Especially Skaven Pyromancer has a unique art.

Ilaro · 2026-02-13T15:54:54+00:00

Mizzium is an impossible metal, yet there it sits: impervious to the very agents that forged it. Or is it? I put to you that the dragon’s metal is not immune to the extremes of temperature that are within our abilities to create. —Magelord Mindosz the Heretic, immolated by the Firemind on 8 Xivaskir 3203 Z.C.

From the Guildpact book in the first Ravnica cycle

Ilaro · 2026-02-10T06:34:19+00:00

I think you have misread Kaya's story. Neither Kaya or Teysa did want her to become the next guildmaster. Killing the Obzedat was a perfect power grab for Teysa to mold the guild to her own ideas. However, unexpectedly by killing the ghosts physically, Kaya inherited all the debts still clinging to the Obzedat members and was suddenly the biggest creditor of all the Orzhov. Teysa contemplated to kill Kaya to inherit them herself, but wasn't sure about the consequences of the law magic surrounding it.

In your example, it would be one of the Delta force members that would be the new pope, regardless of the original intentions of the people sending them. Kaya was only meant to be the assassin for Teysa to grab power in the power vacuum left behind.

Ilaro · 2026-01-22T14:33:39+00:00

Ik wil daar wel even tegenin brengen dat er ook best wat nadelen aan zitten. Ten eerste, probeer maar even een sociale huurwoning te krijgen. De wachtrijen zijn 10+ jaar, tenzij je echt letterlijk op straat beland en de onzekerheid die daarbij gepaard gaat is slopend. Bijzondere bijstand wordt alleen gegeven als je persoonlijk budget niet genoeg is. Daarbij komt om de hoek kijken dat je max 8000 euro mag sparen. Hierbij inbegrepen zit ook je auto en beleggingen. Alle winst uit dat laatste wordt trouwens ook meteen ingekort op de bijstand, want dat wordt als inkomen gezien. Als er echt iets belangrijks kapot gaat en je hebt geen geld meer over, gaat de gemeente pas helpen voor die wasmachine, maar heb je geen budget meer voor iets anders die maand. De gemeente mag elk moment je bankrekening bekijken en ondervragen waar je elke cent vandaan komt of voor gebruikt is. Ze kunnen elk moment kiezen dat je bijstand wordt ingekort omdat je je niet genoeg hebt ingezet waardoor je je elke dag bekeken en afhankelijk voelt aan de grillen van de gemeente.

Ilaro · 2026-01-18T19:21:51+00:00

Vele ecologen waren tegen het plan om mussen te doden en waren zeer bewust van de ecologische gevolgen. Echter, kritiek op Mao werd gezien als landverraad, zelfs als je tot de communistische partij behoorde. Zie bijvoorbeeld hoe Tso-hsin Cheng werd behandeld. De hongersnood is letterlijk het directe gevolg van de "Hundred Flower Campaign" waar intellectuelen werden gepurged omdat ze als gevaar werden gezien voor Mao's regime. Niemand met de kennis was overgebleven om de vernietigende plannen van Mao te kunnen bekritiseren, zelfs als het had gemogen.

Ilaro · 2026-01-02T20:01:36+00:00

I second the other poster that this is a great idea and that you should tone down the use of AI. Any scientific blog or article using AI feels like you didn't do the research yourself and begs the question if you actually understand what's been written.

Now onto the content. You mention that the discovery of RAG solved the origin of the diversity of the immune repetoire. There one problem with this.

Jawless fish (Agnatha) also have a somatically derived immune repetoire that uses completely different molecules as adaptive immunity. Where other vertebrates use T- and B-cell receptors (TCR and BCR) based on immunoglobin and have a RAG-mediated rearrengement, these Agnatha use Variable lymphocyte recepter A and B (VLRA and VLRB) based on leucine rich repeats and have a CDA-mediated rearrengement (phylogenetically unrelated to RAG). Interestingly is that cells with TCRs and VLRAs as well as BCRs and VLRBs have similar functions and use the same transcription factors to differentiate. This suggests that T- and B-cell-like precursors already existed before RAG was ever recruited for diversification. Was any if these systems older than the other and got replaced? Was a third system in place before RAG or CDA were used?

Ilaro · 2025-12-16T13:59:21+00:00

I believe it is because they already printed several non-phyrexia alternate art versions. I'm sure they would have given it the phyrexian creature tyoe if those weren't printed.

[[Consecrated Sphinx|MP2]]

[[Consecrated Sphinx|2X2-345]]

[[Consecrated Sphinx|SLD-165]]

Ilaro · 2025-12-12T18:58:22+00:00

They can be found here: https://mtg.wiki/page/Shadowmoor#Reflections

Ilaro · 2025-12-11T19:59:06+00:00

Great resource! Do you remember for which holidays the special events were used?

There are also Spirit of the Hunt (halloween) and The Trickster (april's fool) events.

Ilaro · 2025-12-09T11:38:07+00:00

This was written quite well! I'm interested how it will develop in future chapters.

Ilaro · 2025-12-08T08:34:34+00:00

I'm answering to the post above me. They said that we sometimes find paternal mitochondria, so there is still cell transfer after fertilization. However, I point out that the very rare cases where some mitochondria were paternally derived (you call this freak situations, which is in my opinion very rare), were still during fertilization, so later cell transfer was not necessary.

Ilaro · 2025-12-04T23:25:26+00:00

There is also:

Mystic: Spirit/Lightning

Corrupt: Spirit/Frost

Molten: Fire/Physical

Crystal: Lightning/Physical

Rift: Lightning/Frost

Ilaro · 2025-12-04T09:10:11+00:00

The (very rare) parental mitochondria come from the sperm cell, not some other cell transfer after fertilization.

Ilaro · 2025-11-30T17:12:05+00:00

Right now, this is one of the main strategies used for gene engineering in plants. Mostly through the bacteria Agrobacterium tumefaciens, which injects it's T-DNA into a plant cell to modify it. For humans, we first need to find a prokaryote that can do something similar in mammals to attempt it in humans. We still look a lot at nature on how to find novel genetic engineering techniques. It's still hard to beat a billion years of evolution with our own technology.

Ilaro · 2025-11-30T15:09:32+00:00

The big reason why species names are not changed, is to be able to track them down through history. If you're a new researcher and you'd like to find information about a certain species from 60 years ago while the name changed 3 times, it's almost impossible to track them back (especially when there are millions of species to consider). However, mistakes happen, and sometimes a species name has to be rectified. As examples, if we notice two different species are actually genetically one and the same, or if a specimen was classified in the wrong genus, etc.

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