Sentences with phrase «selfish genetic elements»

In an experiment published in 2013, Inglis and colleagues showed that bacteriocins can act primarily as selfish genetic elements promoting their own transmission in the population.

The maternal - effect, selfish genetic element Medea is associated with a composite Tc1 transposon.

A maternal - effect selfish genetic element in Caenorhabditis elegans.

This asymmetry can be exploited by selfish genetic elements to bias their transmission to the egg as a form of meiotic drive.

Thus the long - known sup - 35 and pha - 1 form what's called a selfish genetic element, Kruglyak's team proposes May 11 in Science.

Selfish genetic elements, genetic conflict, and evolutionary innovation.

Burt has made a career studying «selfish genetic elements,» parasitic pieces of DNA or RNA that exist only to propagate themselves.

On this week's show: A selfish genetic element that masquerades as an essential developmental gene, plus a roundup from the daily news site

In flour beetles, babies that do not inherit the selfish genetic element known as Medea succumb to a toxin while developing in the egg.

But Hay notes that it is crucial that the anti-malaria genetic «cargo» remain attached: «What you really don't want is the selfish genetic element to spread without its cargo.»

Provides a broad overview of evolutionary ideas, including the modern theory of evolution by natural selection, evolution of sexual reproduction, patterns of speciation and macro-evolutionary change, evolution of sexual dimorphisms, selfish genetic elements, and kin selection.