Sentences with phrase «fly version of the gene»

But swapping the fly version of the gene into these mutant mice corrects most of those abnormalities.

«When we say the foraging gene is the same, what we're saying is that when you look at the DNA sequences of the human and the fly there is a lot of similarity, enough that you can see it's the fly version of the gene that the human has,» says Sokolowski.

Not exact matches

The less adept mice, Rubin's team found, carry extra copies of a previously known human gene called DYRK; a mutated version of an almost identical gene in fruit flies, called minibrain, causes neurological defects.

When we took the mouse version of this gene — the same gene we find in the human — and put it in the fly and tweaked it, we induced fly eye tissue.

When the scientists looked for the human version of the newly identified fly marker for sleep deprivation, they found ITGA5 and realized it hadn't been among the human immune genes they screened at the start of the study.

Knocking down the expression of either the fruit fly version of the FOXD1 gene or the fruit fly version of ALDH1A3 blocks the formation of brain tumors in a brain cancer model of the fruit fly species Drosophila melanogaster, the researchers found.

To see how courting is affected when neurons are hyperactivated, they used flies with a version of a gene that was stuck in the «on» state in clumps of nerve cells.

In 2000, behavioral geneticist Ulrike Heberlein of the University of California, San Francisco, found that mutations in a fruit fly gene that disrupts the synthesis of their version of the neurotransmitter noradrenaline dampen a fruit fly's ability to acquire tolerance to ethanol.

Cook and his colleagues were even able to restore some normal walking ability to stum - mutant flies by adding the mouse version of the stum gene.

Another discovery in D. melanogaster, said Shah, is that neurons in the fly's brain, expressing male - specific versions of the gene known as fruitless, «seem to connect up with these Gr32 - sensing neurons on the foreleg.

«To hone in on functional conservation, we focused on Cindr, the fly's version of the human NS gene, CD2AP.

In order to study the function of this two million - year - old gene, Hongzheng Dai and Ying Chen — former graduate students in Long's lab and first authors of this study — created flies with a suppressed version of the sphinx gene, which is expressed in male reproductive glands.