Genome (parasite)
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A genome is the population of parasite organisms commanded by a single Root Beckon, and one of the axes of the parasite taxonomy, alongside structure, origin and class. Organisms of the same species differ between genomes in size, behaviour and physiology. Assimara, Derived and Fabricated organisms carry a genome, and Assimilated organisms have none.
Genomes are grouped into lineages. A lineage is the set of genomes that answer to one Supreme Beckon, or to one Vagrant, who stands at the head of a lineage in the same way.
Lineages
The Iris, Vitreous and Tromos each have a lineage, and each Vagrant has a lineage of its own. Every lineage has a defining genome, in which the Supreme Beckon or Vagrant itself takes the place of the Root Beckon. Lineages differ in only a few broad features, and mainly determine the chain of command. The Vitreous and Tromos lineages answer to the Iris, and a lineage continues after its Supreme Beckon has been destroyed.
Most genomes on Earth belong to the Iris lineage. The Vitreous lineage is made up mainly of subterranean organisms, and the Tromos lineage mainly of Derived organisms.
Iris lineage
- Alclidic: the defining genome of the Iris lineage, to which all organisms on the Iris belong. On Earth it is found in Australia, mainly along the coasts. Its organisms are adapted to heat and vulnerable to cold, and its Beckons carry smaller stores of sulfur hexafluoride than those of other genomes.
- Aridic: the genome of the Sahara and the Arabian deserts. Its Beckons form few root connections with each other in the poor desert soil and receive less direction from the Dispatcher network than those of other genomes. Its organisms are individually very durable.
- Boreic: the genome of Siberia. Its organisms are adapted to cold and stay more active through the winter than those of any other genome, and its field organisms have a denser membrane. Its Beckons carry larger stores of sulfur hexafluoride for their size and remain fully active through Overwinter.
- Humic: the genome of the Amazon basin. Rich soil, heavy rainfall and warmth make its Beckons the largest and highest-output on Earth, and their glow extends further into the visible spectrum than that of other Beckons.
- Pontic: the genome of the Black Sea coast and Ukraine. Its Beckons grow in dense clusters on large shared root systems, which makes them harder to find and to destroy completely, and its field organisms respond to coordination faster than those of other genomes.
- Sinic: the genome of East Asia. Its Rupters are faster than those of other genomes and answer the hive call more readily, and its Dispatchers learned Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese and Korean faster than any other Dispatcher population.
- Tethysic: the aquatic genome, first recorded in Indonesian waters and found in all the oceans, including the Mediterranean. Its Dispatchers have learned human maritime communications in particular depth.
Vagrant lineages
- The Knox hive is the defining genome of the 1st Vagrant's lineage.
- The Dyadic genome is the 3rd Vagrant's.
- The 4th Vagrant's organisms respond more strongly to coordination than those of any other genome.