Sentences with phrase «conserved over evolution»
These regions tend to be conserved over evolution, and scientists have thus assumed that too many mutations in these regions are fatal.
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In today's issue of Cell, a team reports that it has found in mice and humans a close relative of a fruit fly clock gene — the first evidence that some of these genes may have been conserved over the course of evolution.
What I find most interesting is the idea that the embryonic tissue that goes on to form limb and the motor neurons is regulated by coordinated molecular mechanisms — under the guidance of a genetic program that has been conserved over the course of evolution.
«One of the basic rules of evolution is that which is functional tends to be conserved over time,» says Edward Rubin, a geneticist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California.
«Statistically speaking, the probability that a highly conserved DNA sequence will change multiple times over 6 million years of evolution is close to zero».
This has revealed an ancient reproductive requirement in the Urbilaterian, the common ancestor of all bilaterian animals and highlights a fundamental reproductive function associated with Boule protein conserved over six hundred million years of evolution.