Sentences with phrase «genes controlling many»

As humans bred dogs to meet their own specifications, the genes controlling disease tagged along into the next generation with the genes controlling desirable characteristics such as dreadlocks and double toes.

University of Illinois researchers have identified candidate genes controlling the accumulation of phenolic compounds in broccoli.

Dogs offer a unique system for the study of genes controlling morphology.

Importantly, there is a clear signature of the parents» sensitivity to high CO2 in the molecular phenotype of the offspring expressed by the differential regulation of genes controlling the circadian rhythm indicating adaptive potential through natural standing variation.

This in turn suggested that the genes controlling their immune system's responses (located in the major histocompatibility complex [MHC]-RRB- might be responsible for the side effects they were experiencing.

To date, these data have been studied with a two - step process cumulating in an integrative data analysis to identify genes controlling metastatic colonisation.

An international team of scientists has now made a breakthrough by showing that many genes controlling the development of the brain and the nervous system were particularly important for rabbit domestication.

The octopus also has an abnormal number of genes controlling neuron development and interactions between neurons — processes likely associated with learning and intelligence.

This poor parenting actually alters genes controlling the production of stress hormones.

Chinese scientists had cloned several functional genes controlling important agronomic traits.

Furthermore, orthologs of genes controlling pistil retention in maize were misregulated in bsl1 - 1 mutants.

Analyses by Martin Johnsson, a former graduate student in Dominic Wright's lab (Linköping University, Sweden) found that genes controlling chicken reproduction and behavior are evolving quickly in the Kauai population4.

Number of genes controlling a quantitative trait in a hybrid zone of the aposematic frog Ranitomeya imitator Vestergaard, J. S., E. Twomey, R. Larsen, K. Summers, and R. Nielsen.

Number of genes controlling a quantitative trait in a hybrid zone of the aposematic frog Ranitomeya imitator.

Here, we identified genes controlling greening directly downstream of the GATAs by integrating data from RNA - sequencing and microarray data sets.

These screens were strongly enriched for genes controlling nucleocytoplasmic transport.

The research team behind the study, which is being published in the journal Epigenetics, also found strong links between these altered epigenetic patterns and the activity in genes controlling improved metabolism and inflammation.

We can reasonably expect the genes controlling cell number to be conserved among animals.

The scientists removed the genes controlling viral replication and that cause disease, and they added part of the controlling element of a gene known as CCN1 to cause the virus to replicate selectively in cancer cells.

Newly selected mutations in genes controlling sperm production show up in every ethnic group he and his team have studied; those genes may affect characteristics including abundance, motility, and viability.

So Hoffman is now looking for leads among genes controlling the production of molecules called growth factors, which regulate cell growth and division.

And Dr. Ludovic Orlando from the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen concludes: «Perhaps even more exciting as it represents the hallmark of animal domestication, we identify genes controlling animal behavior and the response to fear.

For the first time, researchers have identified a long non-coding ribonucleic acid (ncRNA) that regulates genes controlling the ability of heart cells to undergo repair or regeneration.

By sequencing genomes, scientists can find out all the genes controlling inheritable traits of an organism.

They further investigated the genomic basis of divergence among the cultivated populations for identifying genes controlling important traits.

They then identified the putative causal mutations in genes controlling shattering (a key domestication trait among cereal crops).

University of Illinois researchers have identified candidate genes controlling the accumulation of phenolic compounds in broccoli.

«If we know how genes control drug response, we can create a statistical model that shows us what will happen before using the drug,» said Wu, who is also a member of Penn State's Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.

The feeding tube of the dying embryos was not forming properly, so researchers at first speculated that the gene controlled tube development.

At least 20 different genes control lycopene production.

Lead researcher, Professor Giovanni Montana from King's College London said: «The notion that our genes control our face is self - evident.

«We're now in an age where we can pretty easily figure out what genes control those differences,» von Wettberg says, keeping the qualities that mechanized farming requires, «while adding in resistance to drought, disease, and pests.»

However, scientists» knowledge of the target genes controlled during memory formation is limited.

«The world of RNA opens new dimensions to gene control and gene expression,» Rassoulzadegan says.

The team also found that two clusters of these genes control different kinds of aggression: one directed at strangers and strange dogs, and the other directed at the owner and other dogs in the household.

These results showed that different genes control the life span of C. elegans and the length of reproductive time.

In both groups, 30 per cent of flies died, with specific defects showing that the silenced genes controlled mainly early - stage development.

When Murphy compared the genes turned off and on in oocytes and body cells of the same worm, however, she saw that two completely different sets of genes controlled oocyte and body - cell aging in C. elegans.

Andersson's group narrowed the search for the gene controlling beak size to a stretch of DNA that contains HMGA2 and three other genes.

Genetic variants of the HMGA2 gene controls beak size in the birds, evolutionary geneticist Leif Andersson and colleagues now report.

These two areas, though, are linked in more ways than just function — the same gene controls the size of each area, Salk researchers led by Dennis O'Leary have now discovered.

The UW team discovered that some codons, which they called duons, can have two meanings, one related to protein sequence, and one related to gene control.

«The fact that the genetic code can simultaneously write two kinds of information means that many DNA changes that appear to alter protein sequences may actually cause disease by disrupting gene control programs or even both mechanisms simultaneously,» said Stamatoyannopoulos.

The borrowed genes control the production of sugars carried on the surface of the cells.

Dr Nicola Nadeau, a NERC Research Fellow from the University of Sheffield added: «It's amazing that the same gene controls such a diversity of different colours and patterns in butterflies and a moth.

Researchers say the newly found level of gene control is likely to apply to all tissues.

The Newcastle University study suggests that an as - yet undiscovered gene controls whether a man's sperm contains more X or more Y chromosomes, which affects the sex of his children.

«Potentially reversible changes in gene control «prime» pancreatic cancer cells to spread: Epigenetic changes, not DNA mutations, drive some metastasis.»

But researchers do not know which genes control the process.

In a study described in the January 28 issue of Nature Neuroscience, the Hopkins team describes this new gene control mechanism and how it may contribute to Rett Syndrome, a nervous system disorder affecting mostly girls that causes problems with movement and communication.