As you’ll probably be aware by now, we’ve been hiding 20 amino acid sequences from a certain egg protein across Nature Network and associated sites. Find all 20 – or more than anyone else – and you could win an online Nature subscription. All 20 clues are reprinted below.
It’s not too late to get started. You’ve got all Easter weekend to solve the clues and find those sequences. Once you’ve got as many as you can find, list out the sequences in clue order, plus the URL where you found them, and email the list to network – at – nature.com. Oh, and if you want to look clever, tell us what the protein is, as well. You’ve got till 10pm (UK time) on Monday 5 April to enter.
Here are the 20 clues:
Monday
1. Easy one to start. Simply find the Easter egg forum for more info and a place to discuss the challenge.
2. I am the Egg Man, but I’m profiled under my other name.
3. Look where you might eggspect to see an announcement
4. Find the forum post about the world’s oldest bunny and you’ll get the next sequence.
Tuesday
5. Don’t (London) dinosaurs lay eggs? Better take a picture of that!
6. Or better yet…isn’t there a blog about a fossilised nest of eggs, and a serpentine intruder?
7. Easter lambs seem to be hidden in the Gulf Stream.
8. Our blogger Dekker muses on Wordsworth’s seasonal flower
Wednesday (day of the puns)
9. Hennifer Rohn wonders if GM chickens might lay chocolate eggs
10. March of the chocolate punguins by Ova Amsen
11. Heather Eggchevers delves inside a fertilised egg
12. The sheep are a-llama-ing in N’ewe York. Alpaca ’nother pun in.
Thursday
13. Do frozen chickens lay iced eggs? Check the map of Highgate, London to find out.
14. Another frigid chicken, rolled up in Cromer
15. Make no bones about it: chocolate makes for good writing as well as eating
16. In the event, Boston turned out to be a good place to hide a clue today
Friday
17. Having a Good Friday so far? Ian wasn’t
18. The world’s most famous egg had a great fall from one of these…virtually speaking
19. Matt Brown’s written some egg-cellent publications
20. Finally, fly back to the nest and see who’s tweeting