Sentences with phrase «large genome size»

The large genome size has primarily been attributed to an extensive contribution of interspersed repetitive content (Morse et al. 2009; Kovach et al. 2010; Wegrzyn et al. 2013).

As in the flowering plants, the evolution of the large genome sizes of gymnosperms involved both polyploidy and repetitive element activity.

Not exact matches

Its genome weighs in at a whopping 1.2 million letters: at least 10 times larger than atypical virus's; nearly triple the size of that of its largest viral counterpart, canary pox, in the smallpox family; and larger than the genomes of 20 or more parasitic bacteria.

Hidden in the patterns of genome variation are signals that indicate large cyclical fluctuations in population size that mirror historical patterns of glaciation.

In 2015, he and his group published an initial assembly of the axolotl genome, a Herculean task given its large size, estimated to be about 32 billion bases.

According to Organ's analysis, the largest creatures ever to walk the earth had staggeringly small genomes, most comparable in size to... modern birds.

Yet it has a large genome — roughly ten times the size of a human's — which can make it challenging to study in some respects.

She picked the largest, 3B (chromosome 3 of the B genome), which by itself is double the size of the entire rice genome, containing about 6000 genes.

Its 22 - Gb genome size, makes it the largest genome sequenced and assembled to date.

«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.»

«We originally worried that the large size of the maize genome would make positional cloning unrealistic, requiring very large mapping populations.

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.

It is surprisingly large — about three times the size of the human genome.

The average size of the genome fragments was 800 times larger with approximately 90 percent of all gaps in the original assembly closed.

And, to the team's surprise, its genome is much smaller than those of the Pandoraviruses, despite its larger size.

Despite these advancements and dramatic price cuts, the large size of the newt genome still plagues de novo genome projects and makes them hardly affordable.

Importantly, our decision to use a synthetic genome meant that placed chain - gaps larger than our window size would spread across window boundaries, ensuring that genomic bins would contain no more than 200 kb of sequence.

The Ixodes scapularis genome appears to be very large in size, ~ 2.1 Gbp.

These types of studies usually contain small sample sizes and focus on identifying large, rare variants in the genome rather than smaller, more common variants that may also drive disease pathology.

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

The large size of the octopus genome was initially attributed to whole genome duplication events during evolution, which can lead to increased genomic diversity and complexity.

Many research groups have linked the adaptation of an organism to a niche to large changes in genome size and content.

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.