Sentences with phrase «controls beak size»
Genetic variants of the HMGA2 gene controls beak size in the birds, evolutionary geneticist Leif Andersson and colleagues now report.
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Andersson's group narrowed the search for the gene controlling beak size to a stretch of DNA that contains HMGA2 and three other genes.
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In a previous study from the same team the ALX1 gene was revealed to control beak shape (pointed or blunt) and now a gene (HMGA2) affecting beak size has been identified.