Sentences with phrase «gene evolution»

He also isn't convinced that this mechanism of gene evolution is prominent in other venomous groups.

Jiang N, Bao Z, Zhang X, Eddy SR and Wessler SR (2004) Pack - MULE transposable elements mediate gene evolution in plants.

That unique ecological role for the wasps» venom could explain why these animals rely so heavily on a different mechanism for gene evolution than other venomous species.

January 20, 2000 «Maleness» gene evolution Researchers Chung - I Wu and Gerald Wyckoff report that genes pertaining to male reproduction — those involved in sperm production, transfer and morphology — evolve much faster than their non-sexual counterparts.

Besides the classic model of new gene evolution through gene duplication and functional divergence, other mechanisms are receiving increasing attention as a source of evolutionary innovation.

«I was expecting to find that a few genes would be evolving rapidly, while probably the overall distribution would be changing at about the same rate among all the primates, but instead we saw that the brain's gene evolution in the human lineage has actually slowed down,» Wu says.

LOOKING back at half a billion years of gene evolution could help uncover the genetic basis of many disorders, including Down's syndrome.

But already «it has provided a lot of important information regarding mechanisms and timing of speciation, gene evolution, [and] gene flow between [species and] subspecies,» says gylcobiologist and great ape expert Ajit Varki of the University of California, San Diego, who was not involved in the study.

And «as each complete genome unfolds,» says Sean Carroll, an evolution and development researcher at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, «we are getting a bigger and better picture of patterns of gene evolution and of gene families.»

Gene Evolution and the Origins of Novelty The evolution of regulatory sequences appears to be the major mechanism underlying the evolution of animal form.