Sentences with phrase «own mobile genetic elements»

But efforts to identify the genes on the W chromosome that make silkworms female have come up short: the W does not seem to have any protein - making genes, and is instead almost completely filled with parasitic, mobile genetic elements called transposons.

«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 reverse is true as well: the bovine strains have their own mobile genetic elements.»

CRE are Gram - negative bacteria that frequently express a gene that codes for carbapenemase — an enzyme that breaks down carbapenem and other antibiotics — and that is located on «mobile genetic elements» called plasmids, which can jump from one bacterium to another.

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.

These phages and plasmids can easily move between bacterial cells, and scientists have known for some time that, as a result, these so - called mobile genetic elements can play important roles in virulence and antibiotic resistance.

The most common mobile genetic elements are known as LINE - 1 retrotransposons and...

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.

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.

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.

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

The repeats are mobile elements called transposons, also known as jumping genes, which can trigger mutations in the genes around them and lead to genetic disorders.