Sentences with phrase «of genes from»

Derived from cats brought to Europe by Roman settlers, possibly with admixture of genes from native European Wildcat (F silvestris) with which it can interbreed.

The mixing of genes from two breeds will also mean that the puppies will tend not to look like purebreds.

(All responsible breeders carefully place their dogs in new homes, but breeders of rare breeds are even more finicky about where their pups go because they are guardians of a small gene pool and need to make sure that all breedable dogs are kept intact and that buyers understand the consequences of owning a pet that is also the repository of genes from that limited pool.)

Usually has good genetic diversity (has inherited a variety of genes from several different breeds), which can result in better long - term health

Each litter mate randomly inherits 50 % of its genes from his father and the other 50 % from his mother.

For moggies or non-pedigree cats, the combination of genes from each parent is not usually controlled by people and frequently the father of the kittens is never seen.

These cats have inherited a mix of genes from their mixed parentage, and some vets even find that street cats are more robust in their immunity and are less susceptible to genetic diseases.

Also, do not forget that the ubiquitous variety of cats in Singapore, which is commonly known as the «local breed» (not to be confused with the CFA - recogised breed «Singapura»), is one of the best candidate for a pet as it is generally more hardy in terms of its health and displays much intelligence, probably due to the good mix of genes from its varied ancestry.

To look at the issue, Paul Elliott, FRCP, of Imperial College London, used a technique called Mendelian randomization, which is based on the arbitrary assignment of genes from parent to child — a bit like assigning someone either a placebo or a real drug.

The findings also show that the last 110 years of captivity have left a mark on the Przewalski's horses, in the form of lower genetic diversity, increased inbreeding, and, in some cases, the significant introduction of genes from domesticated individuals.

The mechanism by which we inherit characteristics from our parents is well understood: we inherit half of our genes from our mother and half from our father.

That 1975 paper documented the 99 - percent similarity of genes from humans and chimps and suggested that altered gene regulation, rather than changes in coding, might explain how so few genetic changes could produce the wide anatomic and behavioral differences between the two.

We inherit all of our genes from our parents, so siblings often look alike.

When they compared the genes in different humans, they found that the genes were virtually identical, as would be expected in a comparison of genes from individuals of the same species.

If one copy of one of these genes from one parent is already mutated at birth, the second normal copy from the other parent often can compensate for the defect.

This way, only one set of genes from either chromosome is working at any time.

To that end, he traces the evolutionary histories of genes from different organisms, in order to understand the biological forces that shape essential DNA elements and to understand the ongoing rivalry between pathogens and their hosts.

cell type expresses orthologs of genes from different temporal phases of the light — dark cycle in a related unicellular alga,

Instead, they discovered that each V. carteri cell type expresses orthologs of genes from different temporal phases of the light — dark cycle in a related unicellular alga, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii, with somatic cells enriched for expression of dark - phase genes, and gonidial cells enriched for expression of light - phase genes.

However, extracting these miniscule bits of genes from sediment samples is easier said than done, primarily because the genes of our human ancestors make up just one tiny fraction of the vast genetic debris deposited in caves over thousands of years.

Importantly, each cell line contained a complete set of the genes from each Huntington's disease patient.

To look for conserved orthologues between species, an OrthoMCL28 clustering of genes from eleven genome assemblies was performed (see Methods and Supplementary Table 1).

This section describes the wheat genome assemblies available, gene models, using EnsemblPlants to access wheat data, accessing wheat expression data, finding variation data and finding the wheat orthologue of genes from other species.

The researchers suggest that since the adult muscle stem cells are only activated when injury occurs (by trauma or exercise), they use a new set of genes from those used during embryonic development, which proceeds without injury.

(This is why I was so interested in which grandparents she received more of her genes from overall, by the way.)

The proportion of genes from European versus African sources varied greatly from individual to individual within recipient populations.

One surprise in the genetic data is that both populations of Native Americans have a small admixture of genes from East Asians and Australo - Melanesians, including Papuans, Solomon Islanders and Southeast Asian hunter gatherers.

The ancestors of current - day Yoruba people from West Africa (one of the largest African ethnic groups) provided the largest contribution of genes from Africa to all current - day American populations.

The group took the first step toward their goal of a novel engineering strategy for yeast by creating what is known as a cDNA library: a collection of over 90 % of the genes from the genome of baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), arranged within a custom segment of DNA so that each gene will be, in one version, overactive within a yeast cell, and in a second version, reduced in activity.

Remnants of genes from these viruses exist in the DNA of bats, marsupials, rodents, and other mammals, a finding that may suggest where these deadly microbes lurk before they emerge to kill people.

Studies that compare genetically identical twins with fraternal twins — who only share half of their twin's DNA — help distinguish the effects of genes from the effects of shared environmental factors such as housing, schooling and childhood nutrition.

So, for example, at the University of California in San Francisco they are trying to engineer E. coli so that it can detect cancer cells, it can invade tumors, and then once it's inside they can release toxins; and so they are putting in all sorts of genes from other bacteria to assemble this, you know, this sort of synthetic E. coli that could become basically a cancer torpedo.

The hardy, microscopic animals also known as moss piglets and technically called tardigrades have scavenged about 17.5 percent of their genes from other creatures.

In a case of genetic thievery of astounding proportions, researchers describe in today's Nature how a hot - springs bacterium snatched nearly a quarter of its genes from another species.

Consumers should also be warned, says the FAC, when plants or microbial food products contain copies of genes from animals.

Using advanced techniques for analyzing the simultaneous expression of genes from multiple organisms in an ecosystem, the scientists examined the roots of willows grown on a polluted site in suburban Montreal.

Speakers of Eskimo - Aleut languages, found in the Aleutian Islands and Greenland, inherit almost half their genes from the second wave, while the Na - Dene - speaking Chipewyan in central Canada inherit around a tenth of their genes from a third wave — although all groups can claim to have «first American» DNA (Nature, DOI: 10.1038 / nature11258).

In some cases, the missing pieces can be picked up by comparing the new sequences with known sequences of genes from other species.

By comparing sets of genes from tens of thousands of people, researchers have found some that the body can't seem to live without.

Instead of using the usual small set of DNA markers, both teams compared hundreds of genes from up to 40 spider species to build a family tree that included all the web builders.

A peek at tardigrades» genetic diaries may dispel a rumor about an amazing feat the tiny creatures were supposed to perform: borrowing large numbers of genes from other organisms.

Not being a recognisable species could lose the red wolf its conservation status, despite being the only carrier of genes from extinct southern grey wolves

Goldstein and colleagues had reported that tardigrades imported about 17 percent of their genes from foreign sources using a type of DNA swapping known as horizontal gene transfer (SN Online: 11/25/15).

When they compared this with the genomes of five modern humans, they found that people of non-African origin had inherited between 1 and 4 per cent of their genes from Neanderthals.

In the new nomenclature, genetic sequences are labeled «genseq,» followed by a reliability ranking (e.g., 1 if the sequence is from a primary type), followed by the name of the genes from which the sequences were derived (e.g., genseq - 1 16S, COI).

Biological age, Samani says, is related to the length of telomeres — stretches of DNA at the ends of chromosomes, which protect these precious packages of genes from daily wear and tear.

Genes don't shuffle around via sex, but there's still kidnapping of genes from other asexuals.

I was amused by the subtle genetic mechanisms invoked to explain the lack of genes from Neanderthals» Y chromosomes in...

Surani tried the experiment the other way, too, producing fertilized eggs with two sets of genes from a male mouse.

Looking for a mechanism, researchers found remnants of genes from past infections, sandwiched between odd, repeated bacterial DNA sequences — the «clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats» that give CRISPR its name.