Sentences with phrase «in gene content»

In addition to the core genome that is conserved between species, differences in gene content can be linked to their specific biology.

Many bacterial species are composed of multiple lineages distinguished by extensive variation in gene content.

Most prevalent marine bacteria had differences in gene content that were strongly associated with geography.

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But the vitamin A content was still low, so they turned to a gene found in corn, which increased the amount of vitamin A 23 times.

According to the The Telegraph, among other news outlets, scientists in China have introduced human genes into a herd of cows whose milk contains some of the same properties as breast milk: higher fat content and two human proteins, lysozyme and lactoferrin, which help babies» immune systems.

It finally reveals the gene content of the two different Y chromosome systems that evolved in mammals,» says Dr Grützner, who has led research into monotreme sex chromosomes for more than 10 years.

«Antibiotics use affects the abundance of resistant bacteria in soil: The use of animal manure increases the soil content of antibiotic - resistant genes.»

Yet it is another development — the ability not only to understand but also to synthesize genes at a speed and cost unthinkable just a few years ago — that has spurred, arguably, the greatest paradigm shift in recent biology: Today, many scientists are not content merely to analyze and understand life.

The degree of fat content in the liver correlated with the degree of DPP4 gene methylation and the amount of enzymes produced by the liver.

In a study to be presented on Feb. 5 at the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in Atlanta, researchers will present findings from a study titled, Maternal Diet Alters the Breast Milk Microbiome and Microbial Gene ContenIn a study to be presented on Feb. 5 at the Society for Maternal - Fetal Medicine's annual meeting, The Pregnancy Meeting ™, in Atlanta, researchers will present findings from a study titled, Maternal Diet Alters the Breast Milk Microbiome and Microbial Gene Contenin Atlanta, researchers will present findings from a study titled, Maternal Diet Alters the Breast Milk Microbiome and Microbial Gene Content.

Wheat breeder Jorge Dubcovsky of the University of California, Davis, led an international team that discovered the gene — dubbed gpc - B1 for its effect on grain protein content — in a wild emmer wheat that has grown naturally in the Middle East for millennia.

After six to eight weeks, the microbial content of the mice's feces were analyzed by 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing, which showed that approximately 20 kinds of oral bacteria were present in these mice.

Because photosynthesis helps activate the genes needed to develop color and flavor compounds in the fruit, a shutdown will wash out the grapes» color and alter the acid and sugar content, resulting in the loss of some flavor and aroma.

A recently published study from two Iowa State University scientists shows that a gene found only in a single plant species can increase protein content when introduced into staple crops.

The researchers also identified genes that control sugar content, but realistically, there's no way to directly boost the sugar in commercially grown tomatoes, Klee says.

Currently, the gene content and transcription pattern of the bovine Y chromosome is the only non-primate Y chromosome that researchers have studied in depth, according to Liu.

However, genetic isolation and lineage - specific evolution resulted in the unique structure of the bovine Y chromosome, which determines the gene content and transcriptional activity of the Y chromosome among cattle, according to Liu.

Other characteristic patterns of variants included genes involved in immune system activity and the fat content of breast milk.

In vertebrates, gene content has remained relatively constant, while the fraction of non-coding DNA varies drastically [1 — 3].

The consequences of gene extinction on DM1 phenotype is then monitored at the molecular level by quantitative PCR or at the cellular level by high content screening in 96 or 384 - well plate format.

Not content to provide just the missing evidence for a 60 - year - old puzzle, Wilhelm and his colleagues went on to describe what a subset of these genes do in C. elegans and how they might be driving the ageing process.

In a first for machine - learning algorithms, a new piece of software developed at Caltech can predict behavior of bacteria by reading the content of a gene.

The complete genome sequence was determined and shows a high level of conservation in both sequence and overall gene content in comparison to other Chlamydiaceae.

Stem cell researchers from UCLA used a high resolution technique to examine the genome, or total DNA content, of a pair of human embryonic stem cell lines and found that while both lines could form neurons, the lines had differences in the numbers of certain genes that could control such things as individual traits and disease susceptibility.

Since the expression of genes representing oxidative phosphorylation is decreased in adipose tissue of T2D twins (Table 2 and Fig. 1A), we quantified mtDNA content to follow up these results.

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Biased gene conversion and GC - content evolution in the coding sequences of reptiles and vertebrates.

For custom gene expression projects the Genomics Core has a platform that uses sets of human and mouse custom arrays whose probe content is aimed at gene expression studies in the areas of cancer, immunology and other complex diseases.

Cenix BioScience is a contract research organization focused on the discovery and pre-clinical development of novel therapeutics, specializing in advanced applications of RNA interference (RNAi) gene silencing combined with high content phenotyping in cultured cells in vitro and in animals in vivo.

The gene content of these regions, which in several cases reached gene - level resolution, suggests an important role for epigenetic and transcription regulation in the maintenance of reproductive barriers.

Surprises in Architecture and Gene Content, and Their Functional Implications

Dmitry: as the paper itself notes, the most likely mechanism for the ability of hydroxypropyl - β - cyclodextrin to lower Aβ burden in the mouse model is AD finding is by normalizing membrane cholesterol content and reducing the appearance of abnormal cathepsin D - positive lysosomes, leading to reduced beta - secretase cleavage of APP and an upregulation of genes involved in cholesterol trafficking and Aβ clearance.

The genome comprises 4,411,529 base pairs, contains around 4,000 genes, and has a very high guanine + cytosine content that is reflected in the biased amino - acid content of the proteins.

In addition, the remarkably high (~ 80 %) A + T content of parasite genes can result in long stretches of repetitive amino acids [13], and codons that are not frequently used by organisms popular for heterologous protein expressioIn addition, the remarkably high (~ 80 %) A + T content of parasite genes can result in long stretches of repetitive amino acids [13], and codons that are not frequently used by organisms popular for heterologous protein expressioin long stretches of repetitive amino acids [13], and codons that are not frequently used by organisms popular for heterologous protein expression.

To confirm the accuracy, fidelity, and sensitivity of the method, we carried out several tests including the dilution of a pool of cDNA to levels equivalent to single cell content prior to measurement of gene expression in ten replicates.

But when the researchers used DNA microarrays to survey the content of genes in each genome, they found significant differences among the strains.

«The artificial cell system, in which we can control the genetic content and protein dilution times, allows us to study the relation between gene network design and the emerging protein dynamics.

Surprisingly, whether or not a gene's expression was regulated by MeCP2 did not depend on its mCG content; rather, genes with high levels of mCH tended to be most affected by alterations in MeCP2 expression.

The CRISPR ‐ Cas9 system is applied in high ‐ content image ‐ based gene perturbation screens.

More recently, it has been suggested that the contrasting attributes of gene compactness, GC content and the length of the intronic and intergenic sequences in Hkg and Tsg might be involved in chromatin mediated regulation for maintaining distinct expression patterns in the gene sets [29].

Schosserer will be spending two months in the laboratory of Aric Rogers, Ph.D., at the MDI Biological Laboratory's Kathryn W. Davis Center for Regenerative Biology and Medicine studying the role that molecular regulators of gene expression play in longevity — and in particular how these regulators are affected by lower amounts of food or food with lower energy content.

Both the dark colour and antioxidant content of red grapes is derived from a gene in the plant which produces anthocyanins, one of the most potent classes of antioxidants.

Creatine can increase muscle fiber size by increasing water content in your muscle cells, which triggers genes involved in increasing size.

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This would be consistent with theories of gene — culture interaction that posit there are genetic influences creating psychological predispositions that favor the adoption of particular cultural content in a process of biased transmission (Richerson and Boyd, 2005; Henrich and McElreath, 2007).

Gene promoters more methylated in CPA have higher CpG density than the average CpG content of all promoters analyzed (p < 6.3E - 27).