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hydroxy fatty acid ascaroside

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A glycoside resulting from the reaction of the alcoholic hydroxy group of a hydroxy fatty acid with alpha-ascarylopyranose or its derivatives. They function as semiochemicals in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans.