Sentences with phrase «passenger pigeon mutations»

To recreate the ecology of the passenger pigeon these mutations are useless.

To do de-extinction successfully we need the power to engineer large sections of DNA sequentially in a period of weeks / months rather than years, so primordial germ cells cell cultures will be the mainstay of our effort, but while we wait we could establish a stock of birds that have a few passenger pigeon mutations as a foundation.

The next phase of The Great Passenger Pigeon Comeback is approaching: the engineering of passenger pigeon mutations into living pigeons.

This method could prove a viable route of studying the effects of passenger pigeon mutations on bird traits — a means to discovering how to fine - tune the passenger pigeon de-extinction process.

Not exact matches

As our project now is completing genome sequences and beginning to assess the mutations we will engineer into living band - tailed pigeons we face our biggest obstacle — establishing a research flock of pigeons for the purpose of recreating the passenger pigeons.

We want to introduce the smallest number of mutations necessary to recreate the passenger pigeon's ecology.

The fixed mutations that change traits will form the blueprint of the passenger pigeon.

To further investigate the genomic sources of passenger pigeon traits our research team is applying an evolutionary approach — looking for «hot spots» of selection in the genome indicated by higher concentrations of differentiating mutations between band - tails and passenger pigeons.

Comparing multiple subspecies of Band - tailed Pigeon to a larger set of Passenger Pigeon genomes will help narrow down which mutations are truly unique to Passenger Pigeons as a whole species.

But the team found the opposite: the passenger pigeon's strong social structure favored beneficial mutations for living at high densities, driving selection throughout the species and decreasing genetic diversity in large sections of the genome where recombination seldom occurs.

Among these mutations are some of the unique adaptations key to the Passenger Pigeon's ecological function.

Phase 1.3 has started, comparing the genomes of four passenger pigeons and two band - tailed pigeons to identify the mutations that separate the two species.

To further investigate the genomic sources of passenger pigeon traits our research team is applying an evolutionary approach — looking for «hot spots» of selection in the genome indicated by higher concentrations of differentiating mutations between band - tails and passenger pigeons.