Sentences with phrase «signature of selection»

• Students draw the hand / feet in particular signatures of a selection of artists.
Alfred's research focus is on malaria population genomics with a particular interest in determining genome - wide signatures of selection for markers of immunity and drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum.
«We're generating so much sequence data right now, from so many species, that it's relatively straightforward to look for signatures of selection in genes and to find good candidates for adaptations,» Montooth said.
Nevertheless, variations in evolutionary signatures of selection amongst immune genes from bumblebees and honeybees may point to different pressures exerted by the distinct pathogens that threaten these bees.
Although elevated dN / dS is a common metric for evidence of selection when comparing single genes, dN / dS values are much lower for signatures of selection across the entire mitogenome [33].
Their findings indicate that intuition and signatures of selection in gene sequence may not be enough for scientists to conclusively solve the puzzles of molecular evolution.
To answer these questions, Senior lecturer Xiao - Ru Wang and colleagues examined the signature of selection among members of a large gene family, the glutathione S - transferase (GST) in pine genome.
«We were hoping to find a signature of selection about 2 million years ago,» says Nathaniel Dominy, a...
A study of genomic diversity among wild and domesticated accessions revealed genomic regions bearing the signature of selection under domestication.
Importantly, the signatures of selection for an optimal genome size are not always consistent; the Chinese tree shrew has a high metabolic rate but a relatively large genome of 2.86 GB [13].
We have analysed diversity and signatures of selection in the neotropical Heliconius butterflies using resequenced genomes from 58 wild - caught individuals of H. melpomene, and another 21 resequenced genomes representing 11 related species.
Ideally, such methods papers should provide new insight into how we think about the signature of selection.
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