Sentences with phrase «gene content»

Most prevalent marine bacteria had differences in gene content that were strongly associated with geography.

Now that we're confident of the assembly and gene content of these highly repetitive regions on the X chromosome, we can start to dissect their biological significance.»

«Maternal diet alters the breast milk microbiome and microbial gene content.»

Fa - Ten Kao, Jinjwei Yu, and their colleagues at the Eleanor Roosevelt Institute for Cancer Research in Denver homed in on a 20 - million - base - pair stretch on the long arm of chromosome 21 called 21q11 - 21, which has a low percentage of cytidine and guanosine nucleotides — a telltale sign of low gene content, or «junk DNA.»

The coherence of the NRY's gene content contrasts with the apparently haphazard content of most eukaryotic chromosomes.

The complete genome sequence was determined and shows a high level of conservation in both sequence and overall gene content in comparison to other Chlamydiaceae.

Our analyses found high variation in genome size and gene content among the eight Pseudomonas genomes analyzed (strains UM270, Pf0 - 1, A506, F113, SBW25, PICF - 7, UK4 and UW4).

Finally, we show that a high proportion of these novel induced genes are taxonomically restricted, highlighting the rapid evolution of immune gene content.

The dog gut gene catalogue was compared to existing gut microbiome gene catalogues from humans, mice and pigs to assess the similarities in gene content and how the gut microbiome responds to changes in diet.

In a study to be presented on Feb. 5 at the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in Atlanta, researchers will present findings from a study titled, Maternal Diet Alters the Breast Milk Microbiome and Microbial Gene Content.

Despite its importance for sex determination, gene content and evolution of the Y chromosome has long been a mystery in most mammals, particularly in monotremes (the platypus and echidna).

Dr Luis Pedro Coelho and colleagues from the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, in collaboration with Nestlé Research, evaluated the gut microbiome of two dog breeds and found that the gene content of the dogs microbiome showed many similarities to the human gut microbiome, and was more similar to humans than the microbiome of pigs or mice.

It finally reveals the gene content of the two different Y chromosome systems that evolved in mammals,» says Dr Grützner, who has led research into monotreme sex chromosomes for more than 10 years.

Dr Luis Pedro Coelho, corresponding author of the study, commented: «We found many similarities between the gene content of the human and dog gut microbiomes.

«Future studies of the gene content of this gene region, combined with biochemical analyses of the gene products,» they write, «promise to yield new insights into the genetic basis of social evolution.»

We report a 10.1 - gigabase assembly of the 14 chromosomes of wild tetraploid wheat, as well as analyses of gene content, genome architecture, and genetic diversity.

Page's lab, best known for its pioneering investigations of the Y chromosome, embarked on a rigorous comparison of the mouse and human X chromosomes, in part to test the longstanding biological tenet that the gene content of X chromosomes is conserved and shared across mammals.

«The mitogenome of V. scurruloideum has proven an unexpected goldmine of surprises, setting new benchmarks for the extremes of genome size, gene content, protein divergence and other biological mechanisms,» he said.

Gene content and order are highly conserved between Mmu 16 and the syntenic blocks of the human genome.

Currently, the gene content and transcription pattern of the bovine Y chromosome is the only non-primate Y chromosome that researchers have studied in depth, according to Liu.

However, genetic isolation and lineage - specific evolution resulted in the unique structure of the bovine Y chromosome, which determines the gene content and transcriptional activity of the Y chromosome among cattle, according to Liu.

A total of 1.045 billion base pairs of nonredundant sequence was generated, annotated, and analyzed to elucidate the gene content, diversity, and relative abundance of the organisms within these environmental samples.

Within a given bacterial species, gene content can vary by 50 % or more from the reference genome.

In vertebrates, gene content has remained relatively constant, while the fraction of non-coding DNA varies drastically [1 — 3].

The researchers developed the tool, MIDAS, for rapidly profiling differences in gene content and single nucleotide variants across bacterial strains.

This revealed, despite the high overall genomic conservation of the region, remarkable differences of the gene content between human and mouse.

Array CGH provided a much better look at the gene content on the chromosomes of human embryonic stem cells, with a resolution about 100 times better than standard clinical methods.

Here, we report a deeper analysis of its gene content and compare it to other P. fluorescens strains to unveil the genetic elements that might explain UM270's great colonizing and plant growth - promoting capabilities.

Metazoans can now be defined by a long list of genomic synapomorphies — gene content, intron — exon structure and syntenies — as well as characteristics common to all animal life such as sex, development, controlled cellular proliferation, differentiation and growth, and immunity.

Surprises in Architecture and Gene Content, and Their Functional Implications

We are also analyzing the gene content of hundreds of microbiome species from humans all over the world to test if the hypotheses we formed from the Khoisan study hold up.