Sentences with phrase «genetic analyses»

«With the help of genetic analyses of the DNA found in the seed coat, which is of maternal origin, we could make an exact assignment of the corresponding «mother tree» for the seeds,» says Eckhard W. Heymann from the DPZ.
A series of genetic analyses confirmed that the DNA target sequence had been altered in the transgenic plants, with either DNA insertions or deletions in both copies of the DFR - B gene (so - called bi-allellic mutants).
After conducting genetic analyses, they discovered that the hemoglobin genes of snow leopards look and work pretty much the same as those in other cats, they report today in The Journal of Experimental Biology.
In the new vision — based on increasingly sophisticated genetic analyses — people and other animals are closer cousins to single - celled choanoflagellates than to other multicellular organisms.
The researchers then conducted a number of genetic analyses to piece together the network of genes responsible for this nutrient addiction.
Using an approach combining chemistry and genetic analyses, the researchers studied normal and genetically altered mice.
More genetic analyses will be required to back up this conclusion.
So, Lyko and his colleagues sequenced genomes of about a dozen marbled crayfish from different parts of the world and performed less detailed genetic analyses of two dozen more from across Madagascar.
Cunningham also observed the daily activities of a T. carbonaria hive over a single winter, witnessing three major battles and collecting the dead for later genetic analyses.
She points to genetic analyses completed last year of the extracted pulpy material that indicated T. rex's closest known modern - day kin is the chicken.
New genetic analyses now revealed that it represents a distinct species.
The tissue samples were subjected to molecular - genetic analyses at the Institute of Anthropology at Mainz University.
Scientists have combined genetic analyses with new modeling approaches for the first time to help identify how well balsam popular trees are adapted to handle climate change.
The US has 86 crime labs that carry out genetic analyses, but the federal government sets no common benchmarks for their work.
New genetic analyses of tropical marine microorganisms have revealed that some species of single - celled plankton are converting significant amounts of nitrogen from the air into nutrients, helping to fortify the base of the ocean's food pyramid.
GENETIC JOURNEY Recent genetic analyses suggest that natives of Papua New Guinea, shown here during a traditional Enga cultural show in 2015, descend from people who left their Africa homeland some 72,000 years ago.
Previous genetic analyses of a couple of «yeti» hair samples collected in India and Bhutan suggested that a stretch of their mitochondrial DNA resembled that of polar bears.
Using genetic analyses, the researchers showed that a commonly used cell line which was established in Uppsala, Sweden, almost fifty years ago does not originate from the patient it is claimed to stem from.
But now, he adds, these fossils of turtle progenitors firmly back up the results of genetic analyses of living reptiles: Turtles belong on the diapsid branch of the reptilian family tree.
Previous studies that used only information from genetic analyses of current species have suggested that birds arose anywhere from 72 million to 170 million years ago.
Today, there no longer exist any barriers that prevent the possible mingling of both subspecies; an investigation of these processes is however subject to further genetic analyses.
They compared genetic analyses of these samples with those from both parents (in 876 cases) as well as from 1,287 healthy children of European descent.
TRUTH, BEARED Though this Himalayan brown bear looks distinctly ursine, genetic analyses reveal that the animal has occasionally been mistaken for a yeti.
The research team, using head shapes and genetic analyses, recommend that six groups of subspecies of the western rattlesnake be elevated to full species status, with the following names:
Ko is quick to note that these new findings do not warrant radical dietary changes in people with Crohn's: More studies, including more refined genetic analyses of fatty acids and Crohn's and testing in animal models, are needed.
Using genetic analyses of more than 50 horse breeds, along with the pedigrees of three stallions that founded English Thoroughbreds, researchers traced the Y chromosomes of modern horses back hundreds of years.
«We have made great efforts and spent many nights in the field to cover large parts of Poland when sampling saliva from the two tree frog species for genetic analyses,» said Tomasz Majtyka, the University of Wroclaw and equal first author of the study.
Then, the researchers used genetic analyses to identify the major groups of fungi and bacteria inhabiting the grunge.
However, the genetic analyses showed that Tjøme oyster genes were significantly different from the genetic material of Swedish and Danish oysters.
Genetic analyses are increasingly gaining in importance in healthcare settings as prevention and diagnostic tools.
MARCO ISLAND, FLORIDA — Fast, cheap genetic analyses will soon become a reality, and the consequences — good and bad — will affect everybody.
By applying sophisticated molecular genetic analyses, the scientists identified 12 Sarcocystis species in the wolf carcasses.
Genetic analyses have shown that high - grade gliomas can be divided into four subtypes: proneural, neural, classic and mesenchymal.
Still, additional genetic analyses have typically led researchers to conclude that Homo sapiens arose in Africa and replaced the archaic humans it encountered as it spread out from its birthplace without mingling with them.
Genetic analyses found herbs similar to black cohosh were being sold in commercial preparations of the popular remedy, possibly explaining mixed results and casting doubt on supplement label accuracy
Lindqvist's team is not the first to research «Yeti» DNA, but past projects ran simpler genetic analyses, which left important questions unresolved, she says.
A genetic analyses also showed the two are closely related.
Such genetic analyses could inform how ground crews manage an airport's ecology to deter birds.
PDAC genetic analyses show that KRAS mutations are encountered in a majority of patients and play a significant role in cancer initiation, progression and metastasis.
Through biochemical studies and genetic analyses, it was finally possible to confirm the disorder in five patients from the Israeli families.
Thanks to the computational model, the researchers were able to measure the processes and to conduct distinct genetic analyses for the specific mental processes.
Using genetic analyses the researchers confirmed that the creatures tend to choose mates of a similar size (a selection process known as assortative mating).
«The lab is very high - tech and is able to run a number of different types of genetic analyses,» Chan said.
Because modern genetic analyses have shown similarities between the strains of one end and the other.»
The problem, Yang says as she leaps to the front of the conference room, is that removing the DNA - containing nuclei from pig ova isn't always complete; occasionally some of an ovum's own PERV - infested genes remain behind, so the embryo created from it also has PERVs, genetic analyses showed.
And in recent years the idea of an inflammation — Alzheimer's link has gotten a boost from large - scale genetic analyses.
Genetic analyses of locally circulating distemper strains published in July 2017 suggest the injectable distemper vaccines should work for the Ethiopian wolves, Fooks says.
What's worse, genetic analyses revealed that the virus had been circulating in Borno undetected for 5 years.
But new analyses of fish fossils, as well as genetic analyses of a living fish species, suggest that this specialized material once served a very different function: to toughen some bones and scales of ancient fish.
The attorney general's investigation was apparently spurred by a 2013 article in the New York Times that cited a University of Guelph study that used genetic analysis to examine various commercial herbal remedies.
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