Sentences with phrase «gene repertoire»
"Gene repertoire" refers to the complete set of genes present in an organism or a specific cell type. It represents the entirety of genes that are available for carrying out various biological functions in an organism's DNA. Full definition
The researchers also described the full gene repertoires for known drug target families.
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This work yielded the draft sequence of a waterfowl - duck for the first time, and the data indicated that the duck, like the chicken and zebra finch, possessed a contractive immune gene repertoire comparing to those in mammals, and it also comprises novel genes that are not present in the other three birds (chicken, zebra finch and turkey).
To recover the entirety of the VR gene repertoire, we took the cDNA sequences as reported [26], [27] and locally aligned them to the mouse genome with BLAST.
Dr Frank Grützner, genetics lecturer and ARC research fellow with the University of Adelaide's School of Molecular and Biomedical Science, says the study saw researchers analyse billions of genetic sequences from 15 mammal species and revealed, for the first time, new gene repertoires for all major mammal groups, tracing the evolution of the Y chromosome in unprecedented detail.
Finally, they correlated the Tas2r gene repertoire of the species with their diets.
«The use of whole genome sequencing and the sheer number of samples we collected gave us a detailed picture of how the var gene repertoire changes continuously within red blood cells.»
Detection of gene repertoires related to ecological functions (phagocytosis, organic matter degradation, membrane transporters, meiosis) in different lineages of heterotrophic microeukaryotes.
This updated number puts the P. cynomolgi pir gene repertoire at a similar size to that of P. vivax (1,216), while P. ovale curtisi has an even larger repertoire (1,949).
Probes could be designed to only approximately half of the predicted OR gene repertoire with confidence, resulting in expression quantification values for 531 OR genes in whole olfactory mucosa.
It was found that the VH gene repertoire of the GC B cells was strongly influenced by the source of the CD4 + T cells.
It is a real opportunity to explore the diversity of marine micro-eukaryotes which will help us to understand their relative importance through studying specifics such as their metabolic function from a gene repertoire to more broad concepts such as the identification of their ecological functions.
According to Ishikawa, «the gene repertoire of the Buchnera genome is so specialized to intracellular life that it can not survive outside the eukaryotic cell.»