Sentences with phrase «from ancient genes»

By comparing the V. carteri germ and somatic cell transcriptomes, Matt and Umen found that the somatic cells had more transcripts from young, lineage - specific genes, whereas the germ cells had more transcripts from ancient genes that are similar to those expressed in stem cells from animals and land plants.

Not exact matches

Ancient Judaism is the last common ancestor, but it looks like it got handed down many «genes / memes» from Egypt and Mesopotamia (and new Judaism subspecies have evolved since then).

Christianity seems to have gotten some horizontal «gene / meme» transfer from many other places (e.g. ancient Greeks).

These people interbred at the edges of their separate populations, keeping the entire complex network interconnected — and so giving the ancient Kostenki man genes from three different groups.

Within decades, advances in sequencing genes from ancient tissue could allow scientists to clone extinct dodo birds, saber - toothed cats, and woolly mammoths, says Jeffrey Yule, an evolutionary ecologist at Louisiana Tech University.

Analysis of physical characteristics in three - dimensionally preserved Fukangichthys skulls, as well as an examination of DNA sequences from 12 genes, revealed that scanilepiforms are actually ancient cousins of polypterids.

They aimed to extract ancient DNA from organisms trapped in amber to sequence extinct genes, recover dormant life forms and study protein evolution.

Genetic data from ancient Scythian horses indicates that more than 2,000 years of domestication caused changes in horse genes related to mammary gland development and milk production.

From isolated caves to ancient permafrost, antibiotic - resistant bacteria and genes for resistance have been showing up in unexpected places.

Three years ago, at the first international conference on ancient DNA, there appeared to be few limits to the possibilities of gazing into ancient worlds by extracting genes from fossils.

It appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, or PNAS, article «Identification of the VERNALIZATION 4 gene reveals the origin of spring growth habit in ancient wheats from South Asia.»

The group also studied the OR7D4 gene in the ancient DNA from two extinct human populations, Neanderthals and the Denisovans, whose remains were found at the same site in Siberia, but who lived tens of thousands of years apart.

He is using genomic data from living organisms to infer the DNA sequence of ancient genes as part of a growing field known as paleogenomics.

GENES from ancient viruses may be an essential component of mammalian reproduction, helping the placenta to establish itself in the womb, suggest biologists in California.

However much Neanderthals were like us, though, their genes reveal an ancient divergence from our forebears.

In 2012, his team reported that humans had a different form of these fatty acid genes than did chimps or other ancient human species, one that made them more efficient at processing the fatty acids from plants.

Vreeland is now comparing the genes of the ancient bug with those of two contemporary relatives: Bacillus marismortui, from the Dead Sea, and Virgibacillus pantothenticus.

Thanks to ancient hookups, between 20 and 35 percent of Neandertals» genes live on in various combinations from one person to another.

The gene responsible for the new strain's salt tolerance, taken from an ancient ancestor of modern wheat, may help other crops.

The researchers also estimated ancient Denisovan population sizes by using methods to estimate the age of various gene lineages and the amount of difference between the chromosomes the girl inherited from her mother and father.

Surprisingly, the team also found 66 genes analogous to ones regulated by beneficial bacteria in the mouse intestine — suggesting that some host - bacterial interactions derive from an ancient ancestor of both mice and fish.

Although the bacteria shared common features (most live inside animals and many cause disease), the pattern of species carrying and lacking the gene suggested that the gene had been shuffled horizontally in the family tree, between distantly related species, not passed down from an ancient ancestor.

In some of my own research, I have sequenced genes from the bones of wooly mammoths and ancient bison.

DNA from an ancient baby's skeleton shows that all Native Americans descend from a single gene pool.

It might be possible to find variants of genes in ancient DNA from fossils or museum specimens, for example.

The comparison suggests that the ancestors of Ancient Beringians and those of other Native Americans descended from a single founding population that first split from East Asians around 36,000 years ago, although gene flow with North Eurasians — possibly centered around Lake Baikal in southern Siberia — continued until about 25,000 years ago.

In this paper, we describe an ancient lepidopteran LGT of a glycosyl hydrolase family 31 gene (GH31) from an Enterococcus bacteria.

Our finding places the origin of the Boule gene prior to the divergence of Bilateria from Cnidaria, but likely after Trichoplax branched from the common ancestor of eumetazoans, making Boule one of the few ancient animal gametogenic proteins known so far.

The ancient Cucurbita allotetraploid lost its duplicated genes randomly from both of the contributing diploids.

Almost all wolfiness scores below 10 are from ancient wolf genes that have been passed down multiple generations — possibly even dating back to 15,000 years ago when people began domesticating wolves!

Some consider Feeley part of the Color Field arm of Abstract Expressionism as well, while other critics such as Gene Baro saw an independent artist unrelated to the abstract expressionist legacy — «in the way that baroque art is remote from ancient Egyptian art and presumes different standards of value and habits of mind.»