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zombie ants! nature is the coolest

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Peter:
A normal (real live) virus inserts it's genome into a cell. That takes over the cell. Most viruses let the cell produce more viruses till the cell bursts open with viruses that can then go to other cells. It's also possible that the virus just takes control and do what they like with the cell. (but I don't know any real live examples that do this.)

That's also possible in DB. The only issue is that you can only send one gene with a virus shot at a time, so there's a need for a single gene bot.

There's a bit about doing this on the wiki.
http://wiki.darwinbots.com/w/Virus

spork22:
Well, this evolved bot that came from the Shell Maker bot uses a virus to turn whatever tries to eat it against it's buddies. It's not like a fungus at all, but it has the same effect.

http://forum.darwinbots.com/index.php/topic,6380.0.html

I'm actually interested in how it's doing that.

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