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SUBMITTER: Bose N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3733369 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20121119 50
Chemistry the worm's way: The nematode Pristionchus pacificus constructs elaborate small molecules from modified building blocks of primary metabolism, including an unusual xylopyranose-based nucleoside (see scheme). These compounds act as signaling molecules to control adult phenotypic plasticity and dauer development and provide examples of modular generation of structural diversity in metazoans. ...[more]