Sentences with phrase «same genes control»

In collaboration with colleagues in Mexico last year, we found that these same genes control various aspects of maternal reproduction, providing remarkable insight into the evolution of reproductive strategy in flowering plants,» he explained.

These two areas, though, are linked in more ways than just function — the same gene controls the size of each area, Salk researchers led by Dennis O'Leary have now discovered.

Dr Nicola Nadeau, a NERC Research Fellow from the University of Sheffield added: «It's amazing that the same gene controls such a diversity of different colours and patterns in butterflies and a moth.

Not exact matches

«We actually do have control over our genes, which can be exciting and daunting at the same time.

At the same time, Asahina stresses, finding a gene that influences aggression does not mean that aggression is controlled only by genes and always genetically programmed.

However, last August a team headed by plant ecologist Allison Snow at Ohio State University demonstrated that this same gene might produce some very tough weeds: She found that wild sunflowers crossed with Bt sunflowers produced offspring that suffered significantly less insect - related damage and produced 50 percent more seeds than control plants without the gene.

The same genes that control the skate's front fin versus back fin are the same type of genes that discriminate arm neurons from leg ones in people.

The researchers found differences of up to 25 per cent in methylation of the same gene compared with controls.

When Murphy compared the genes turned off and on in oocytes and body cells of the same worm, however, she saw that two completely different sets of genes controlled oocyte and body - cell aging in C. elegans.

The same genes — RALDH2 and the Hox genes — control motor neuron development, and one intriguing theoretical postulate is that RALDH2 may also be involved in limb development.

A new study in Nature shows that the bone development of human fingers and fish fins are in part controlled by the same two genes, Hoxa - 13 and Hoxd - 13.

In the illustration, each tissue type is followed by the number of genes whose level of activity is controlled by nearby genes on the same chromosome (cis); those whose activity is associated with genes on other chromosomes (trans); and the number of tissue samples studied.

In these species, the gene agouti controls the relative amount of red and yellow pigments in the skin, and melanocortin 1 receptor (Mc1r) does the same for black and brown.

Now, two studies pinpoint the location and identity of the gene mutation — and reveal that the same gene also controls the colorful patterns in some butterfly wings.

Normally, the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body and vice versa, but in people with a faulty DCC gene, a subset of the fibers from the brain's motor command center may stay on the same side instead of crossing over.

Short for «evolutionary developmental biology,» Evo Devo posits that the same set of master genes, with differing on - off switches, controls the development of basic body structures in animals ranging from flatworms to humans.

In a previous study from the same team the ALX1 gene was revealed to control beak shape (pointed or blunt) and now a gene (HMGA2) affecting beak size has been identified.

Two years later, a team at the same university bred a beagle name Tegon whose fluorescent gene could be controlled.

A primer / probe set designed to detect 136 bases of the human β - globulin gene was amplified and detected simultaneously in the same reaction with XMRV pol sequence to control for specimen integrity and PCR efficiency.

The group then was able to identify the seven genes that functions in the same pathway related to calcium to control the length of sleep.

With the artificial cell system, according to Bar - Ziv, one can, in principle, encode anything: «Genes are like Lego in which you can mix and match various components to produce different outcomes; you can take a regulatory element from E. coli that naturally controls gene X, and produce a known protein; or you can take the same regulatory element but connect it to gene Y instead to get different functions that do not naturally occur in nature.»

Same exact genes, but those eating more plant - based diets had more favorable levels of this hormone, secreted by human fat cells, that helps control weight.

These colors are all controlled by the same gene, with the shade of color determined by the intensity of the inherited gene.

It is not the same as breeding for coat color (which is controlled by only one or two genes).

The fact that the affected dogs do not share common alleles in any loci and same alleles were present in both cases and controls excludes these known PRA genes as candidates.

«We actually do have control over our genes, which can be exciting and daunting at the same time.