Sentences with phrase «genome size for»

This was chosen because it was similar to the average genome size for mammalian outgroup species.

Virus length and genome size for a representative from each of two recognized giant virus families (mimivirus and marseillevirus families) and eight potential families are shown.

Not exact matches

Circles are scaled to genome size and shaded by size range, with influenza A and E. coli bacterium included for comparison.

Now with an extensive and diverse collection of representative apple genomes, thorough and careful analyses have allowed Fei's group to distinguish important genetic markers that will greatly aid breeders in their quest for better apples — be it for disease resistance, shelf - life, taste, or even size.

In recent years, genome sequencers have dramatically shrunk in size; Oxford Nanopore's MinION, for example, weighs only 85 grams and fits in your hand.

By funding this work, the NHGRI hopes to bring the cost of sequencing a mammalian sized genome down from $ 10 million to $ 1000 in the next 10 years — cheap enough for patients to have their genome sequenced before they receive genome - tailored treatments.

So for his final - year research project he went to the Institute to study population genetics — in particular, how parameters such as population and genome size may affect the evolution of populations — using computer models.

Recently discovered giant, amoeba - infecting viruses blur the line between life and nonlife — although they rely on their hosts for essential biological functions, the bacteria - sized viruses have complex genomes.

By analyzing genetic samples for over half a million individuals as part of the GIANT research project, which aims to identify genes that regulate human body and size, researchers found more than 100 locations across the genome that play roles in various obesity traits.

There are even a few islands — those that contain genes involved in behavior and size, key traits for domesticated animals — that are in the genomes of both European and Asian pigs, Larson reports.

«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.

«They have found a smoking gun in the human genome that connects a regulatory element with a proposed pathway for increasing brain size,» says Todd Preuss, a neuroanatomist at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center in Atlanta, who was not involved with the work.

«Larger sample sizes are needed to detect association of rare variants... and therefore promising associations that miss the threshold for genome - wide significance are important to discuss.»

The team found that ARHGAP11B was also present in Neanderthals and Denisovans, human cousins with similarly sized brains, but not in chimpanzees, with which we share 99 percent of our genome — further support for the idea that this gene could explain our unusually large human brains.

This snippet of the human genome, color coded for major features, comes from a beach - towel - sized poster that represents all 2.9 billion bases.

The window size is 400 bp with a step size of 40 bp for the whole genome, and 200 bp with a step size of 20 bp for the individual genes.

Size selection of DNA fragments between 90 - 150 bp yielded enrichment up to 118-fold, unlocking untargeted genome - wide sequencing for liquid biopsy.

For human and mouse they solved the equation for GL where they estimated ancestral genome size within a range similar to the extant human genome siFor human and mouse they solved the equation for GL where they estimated ancestral genome size within a range similar to the extant human genome sifor GL where they estimated ancestral genome size within a range similar to the extant human genome size.

Using Eq 2 and solving for GA with extant genome sizes from Table 1 and gain and loss rates calculated by the recent transposon method (Table 2), we get estimated ancestral genome sizes of 2.64 Gb and 2.66 Gb for human and mouse respectively.

In the first set of grants, 11 teams will work to develop «near term» technologies that, within five years, are expected to provide the power to sequence a mammalian - sized genome for about $ 100,000.

NHGRI's «Revolutionary Genome Sequencing Technologies» grants have as their goal the development of breakthrough technologies that will enable a human - sized genome to be sequenced for $ 1,000 orGenome Sequencing Technologies» grants have as their goal the development of breakthrough technologies that will enable a human - sized genome to be sequenced for $ 1,000 orgenome to be sequenced for $ 1,000 or less.

The Passenger Pigeon's genome may hold the answers to the true minimum population size necessary for a viable population.

Two strains of Bd have been sequenced: JEL423, taken from Phyllomedusa lemur in Panama, and JAM81, taken from Rana muscosa in California, U. S. A. Bd genome size is estimated to be 23.7 Mb for strain JEL423 and 24.3 Mb for strain JAM81, encompassing about 9000 genes (Rosenblum et al. 2008).

Motivation: The size and complexity of modern large - scale genome variation studies demand novel approaches for exploring and sharing the data.

For the mouse genome, which is a large and repeat - rich genome, the input dataset was designed to include a high proportion of paired end sequences of various size selected inserts, from 2 - 200 kbp lengths, into various host vector templates.

Specification points covered are: Paper 2 Topic 1 (4.5 - homeostasis and response) 4.5.1 - Homeostasis (B5.1 lesson) 4.5.3.2 - Control of blood glucose concentration (B5.1 lesson) 4.5.2.1 - Structure and function (B5.2 lesson) Required practical 7 - plan and carry out an investigation into the effect of a factor on human reaction time (B5.2 lesson) 4.5.3.1 - Human endocrine system (B5.6 lesson) 4.5.3.4 - Hormones in human reproduction (B5.10 lesson) 4.5.3.5 - Contraception (B5.11 lesson) 4.5.3.6 - The use of hormones to treat infertility (HT only)(B5.12 lesson) 4.5.3.7 - Negative feedback (HT only)(B5.13 lesson) Paper 2 topic 2 (4.6 - Inheritance, variation and evolution) 4.6.1.1 - sexual and asexual reproduction (B6.1 lesson) 4.6.1.2 - Meiosis (B6.1 lesson) 4.6.1.4 - DNA and the genome (B6.3 lesson) 4.6.1.6 - Genetic inheritance (B6.5 lesson) 4.6.1.7 - Inherited disorders (B6.6 lesson) 4.6.1.8 - Sex determination (B6.5 lesson) 4.6.2.1 - Variation (B6.9 lesson) 4.6.2.2 - Evolution (B6.10 lesson) 4.6.2.3 - Selective breeding (B6.11 lesson) 4.6.2.4 - Genetic engineering (B6.11 lesson) 4.6.3.4 - Evidence for evolution (B6.16 lesson) 4.6.3.5 - Fossils (B6.16 lesson) 4.6.3.6 - Extinction (B6.16 lesson) 4.6.3.7 - Resistant bacteria (B6.17 lesson) 4.6.4.1 - classification of living organisms (B6.18 lesson) Paper 2 topic 3 (4.7 - Ecology 4.7.1.1 - Communities (B7.1 lesson) 4.7.1.2 - Abiotic factors (B7.1 lesson) 4.7.1.3 - Biotic factors (B7.1 lesson) 4.7.1.4 — Adaptations (B7.2 lesson) 4.7.2.1 - Levels of organisation (feeding relationships + predator - prey cycles)(B7.3 lesson) 4.7.2.1 - Levels of organisation (required practical 9 - population sizes)(B7.4 lesson) 4.7.2.2 - How materials are cycled (B7.5 lesson) 4.7.3.1 - Biodiversity (B7.7 lesson) 4.7.3.6 - Maintaining Biodiversity (B7.7 lesson) 4.7.3.2 - Waste management (B7.9 lesson) 4.7.3.3 - Land use (B7.9 lesson) 4.7.3.4 - Deforestation (B7.9 lesson) 4.7.3.5 - Global warming (B7.9 lesson)

These non-significant results are arguably due to the study's relatively small sample size for a genome - wide association study that requires multiple testing (ranging from N = 372 — 436 in the high and low trait comparison groups), making it unclear whether the same genetic variants are involved in these sub-domains.