Sentences with phrase «conserved gene sets»
Surprisingly, these conserved gene sets were also associated with several other biological traits, which evolved multiple times in ants, such as number of queens in a colony, whether an ant species is invasive or not, and the degree of worker sterility.
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The researchers» results suggest that structural and functional differences between queens and workers result from the differential expression of evolutionary conserved sets of genes, or genes that are basically expressed in the same manner throughout evolution among all ant species.
Whitehead Institute researchers have found that an ancient, highly conserved cell survival factor drives expression of a specific set of genes that is strongly associated with metastasis and death in patients with breast, colon, and lung cancers.
To test a possible homology of these cells with the chordamesoderm, we chose a chordamesoderm - specific gene set according to the following criteria: (i) specificity — their combined expression uniquely defines the chordamesoderm; (ii) conservation — their chordamesoderm expression is conserved in at least three of four vertebrate species; and (iii) function — they have proven essential for chordamesoderm development or signaling.