Sentences with phrase «agouti gene in mice»

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Normally, to achieve such a rapid evolutionary shift, a species needs to start with an alternative version of a gene already in circulation, giving natural selection more to work with, but in deer mice the new version of Agouti spread rapidly from a standing start.

They started with pairs of fat yellow mice known to scientists as agouti mice, so called because they carry a particular gene — the agouti gene — that in addition to making the rodents ravenous and yellow renders them prone to cancer and diabetes.

In Martin's view, the result strongly suggested that the patients had inherited the silenced gene from one of their parents, like the case with agouti mice.

To identify genes whose expression correlated with adiposity, we profiled gene expression in perigonadal adipose tissue from 24 mice in which adiposity varied due to sex, diet, and the obesity - related mutations agouti (Ay) and obese (Lepob).