Sentences with phrase «color gene called»

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Collins and Anthony James of the University of California, Irvine, thought they might use the mutant bug to test a fancy trick: Take a bit of DNA, called a transposon, that likes to wiggle into genomes, and use it to insert a fruit fly gene for darker eye color into a mosquito's DNA.

The next step, he said, is to demonstrate the same results among those called protananamolous, who suffer from a less common form of color blindness involving an overabundance of red pigment genes.

Researchers analyzed the genomes of 16 related orange and white tigers in captivity, fully mapping those of the three parent tigers to show that a mutation in one pigment gene called SLC45A2 is at play — the very same gene that drives lighter coloring in people of European ancestry, chickens, and some mice.

The researchers found that mutations to a gene called ATF6, a key regulator of the unfolded protein response, can lead to achromatopsia, a hereditary visual disorder characterized by color blindness, decreased vision, light sensitivity, and uncontrolled eye movement in children.

Using a slew of molecular techniques, the team identified the color - stealing culprit in white grapes as a mobile fragment of DNA, called a retrotransposon, which inserts itself into the gene controlling pigment production.

A gene called Alx3 blocks the differentiation of pigment - producing cells in the skin of the African striped mouse, thus generating the mouse's characteristic light - colored stripes, a new...

The traditional color, produced when one or both genes have the dominant allele, is commonly referred to as black or black and rust (also called black and tan), while the most common variation, due to both genes having the recessive allele, produces what is called a red or red and rust Doberman in America and a «brown» Doberman in the rest of the world, which is primarily deep reddish - brown with rust markings.

The American company VetGen even offers what it calls a «Coat Color Prediction Service, so you can reveal your dog's hidden color genes and then optimise your ability to breed the colors you want&raColor Prediction Service, so you can reveal your dog's hidden color genes and then optimise your ability to breed the colors you want&racolor genes and then optimise your ability to breed the colors you want».

Off - color from some so - called «throwback» could have been introduced to the Miniature Schnauzer gene pool any time in the past, and then registered as a Miniature Schnauzer.

The coloration of the Turkish Van, which is considered by many to be the original breed to carry the piebald gene, calls for a white, semi-longhaired cat with colored markings restricted primarily to the head and tail.

Blue is called Maltese Blue in some breeds and is genetically a black dog with the dilute gene affecting the black color at a cellular level.

The same advice can be given in regard to the «liver gene» that in bb (we call this double dose «homozygous») substitutes this chocolate - brown color in those hair and integument areas more customarily seen to be black.

In 1965, Louis and Noland, as well as Gene Davis, Howard Mehring, Thomas Downing, and Paul Reed, were featured in an exhibition at the now defunct Washington Gallery of Modern Art, called the «Washington Color Painters,» and since then, this group of artists, along with a few others, has been known as the Washington Color School.