Sentences with phrase «of mobile genetic elements»

Background: Horizontal transfer of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) that carry virulence and antimicrobial resistance genes mediates the evolution of methicillin - resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and the emergence of new MRSA clones.

So far, tribute has been paid to Nobel prize winners, Elizabeth Blackburn and Carol Greider, who discovered telomerase; Barbara McClintock, who won a Nobel Prize for her discovery of mobile genetic elements and Nancy Wexler, who was involved in the work to identify the gene for Huntington's disease.

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Mobile DNA elements called retrotransposons may be a source of genetic variation in nerve cells

«The most frequent way is the transfer via mobile genetic elements such as plasmids, or via transposons, the so - called jumping genes,» explains Friederike Hilbert, scientist at the Institute of Meat Hygiene at the Vetmeduni Vienna.

The complex network of evolutionary relationships the authors describe suggests that viruses evolved from non-viral mobile genetic elements and vice versa, on more than one occasion.

Demonstrated that ABOBEC3G, in conjunction with RNA granules, functions to regulate endogenous mobile genetic elements (e.g., Alu RNAs), whose mobility contributes to a variety of human diseases including cancers and leukemias.

The team found that it is controlled by mobile genetic elements activated by the stress of cold.

Efficient spread of resistance within and between bacterial species is facilitated by mobile genetic elements.