Sentences with phrase «small genomes»

Other labs may even go on to create yet smaller genomes.

Many of these mystery microbes are very small cells, with small genomes laced with unfamiliar genes.

Coxsackieviruses have relatively small genomes made of single - stranded RNA.

Bock's 2009 study showed that cells on either side of a graft could exchange chloroplasts — organelles that carry out photosynthesis and have their own small genome.

Rice has a very small genome, with 12 chromosomes, less than half made up of repeats.

Background: Oxford Nanopore Technologies Ltd (Oxford, UK) have recently commercialized MinION, a small single - molecule nanopore sequencer, that offers the possibility of sequencing long DNA fragments from small genomes in a matter of seconds.

U. urealyticum has six closely related iron transporters, which apparently arose through gene duplication, suggesting that it has a kind of respiration system not present in other small genome bacteria The genome is only 25.5 % G+C in nucleotide content, and the G+C content of individual genes may predict how essential those genes are to ureaplasma survival.

According to Organ's analysis, the largest creatures ever to walk the earth had staggeringly small genomes, most comparable in size to... modern birds.

However, these fears turned out to be largely unwarranted, as we successfully utilized this technique with populations similar in size to Arabidopsis and rice, which have significantly smaller genomes.»

Working together with colleagues in Spain, Japan and Australia, researchers led by Luis Serrano, ICREA research professor and leader of the Design of Biological Systems laboratory at the Centre for Genomic Regulation, focused their attention on the organisation of DNA within an organism with an extremely small genome — the pneumonia pathogen Mycoplasma pneumoniae.

Relatively small genomes orchestrate much more information ‐ rich phenotypes.

To measure genetic diversity, Nowak's team sequenced genes in the animals» mitochondria — energy - generating cellular organelles that have their own small genome.

The agency has helped pay to sequence relatively small genomes, like that of the honeybee.

Mycoplasma pneumoniae has a very small genome, which makes it relatively easy to study.

8 Aside from bacteria, the smallest genome belongs to the intestinal parasite Encephalitozoon intestinalis, with a trifling 2.3 billion base pairs.

At the moment, making extensive changes to even the smallest genome is extremely costly and laborious.

In a 1995 Science paper, Venter's team sequenced the genome of Mycoplasma genitalium, a sexually transmitted microbe with the smallest genome of any known free - living organism, and mapped its 470 genes.

Genomics entrepreneur Craig Venter has created a synthetic cell that contains the smallest genome of any known, independent organism.

This week in Science, researchers led by genome sequencing pioneer Craig Venter report engineering a bacterium to have the smallest genome — and the fewest genes — of any freely living organism, smaller than the flower's by a factor of 282,000.

In 2010, Venter's team reported that they had synthesized the sole chromosome of Mycoplasma mycoides — a bacterium with a relatively small genome — and transplanted it into a separate mycoplasma called M. capricolum, from which they had previously extracted the DNA.

For this work, the ORNL - led team sequenced the genome of Kalanchoë fedtschenkoi, an emerging model for CAM genomics research because of its relatively small genome and amenability to genetic modification.

(Today it has the smallest genome of any living thing — 121 genes, compared with over 20,000 in humans — and it is still shrinking.)

STRIPPED DOWN A newly - created bacterium dubbed syn3.0 has the smallest genome needed for free living.

Animals that fly have smaller genomes.

Now a team led by Pal Maliga of Rutgers University in New Jersey has shown that cells also swap mitochondria — energy - generating organelles with a small genome of their own — across grafts.

For most of the last 40 years, scientists thought the smallest genomes belonged to bacteria of the Mycoplasma genus.

(M. genitaliumis still considered to have the smallest genome of a free - living organism — unlike Tremblaya, it can be grown in the lab.)

Arabidopsis grows quickly and has a small genome, with little repetitive DNA.

The case for the all - conquering Africans is based mainly on studies of the Y chromosome and the mitochondrion, an energy - generating structure within the cell that has its own small genome and passes down the female line.

Actinomyces odontolyticus: Found in the human mouth; hosts a parasitic CPR bacterium, TM7x, that has such a small genome it can not synthesize amino acids on its own.

Marie Trussart, the lead author on the paper, said: «Studying bacteria with such a small genome was a big technical challenge, especially because we were using super-resolution microscopy, and it took us five years to complete the project.

Buchnera is a small genome, resulting from years of evolutionary dependence on aphids.

But the pathogen also has the distinction of containing the smallest genome of any free - living organism — only 525 genes, as opposed to the 4,288 of E. coli, a more traditional laboratory bacterium.

By contrast, the abundant and cosmopolitan picoplanktonic prokaryotes for which there is genomic representation have smaller genomes, are probably capable of only slow growth and seem to be relatively unable to sense or rapidly acclimate to energy - rich conditions.

The elephant shark has the smallest genome among cartilaginous fishes, and has been shown to be the slowest evolving vertebrate genome, according to a new study in the journal Nature.

Mycoplasma genitalium has the smallest genome of any organism that can be grown in pure culture.

It's entirely dependent on its host to survive, and they confirmed that it has the smallest genome of any microbe ever sequenced.

It appeared to have one of the smallest genomes of any microbe ever found.

With about 0.9 million base pairs, M. pulmonis possesses one of the smallest genomes of a free - living organism.

The microbe's small genome and small number of genes could make it easier to genetically engineer.

It has a small genome (about 2 x Arabidopsis) with high sequence identity (average 92 %) with

This cell contains 531,560 base pairs and just 473 genes, making it the smallest genome of any organism that can be grown in laboratory media.

While 140 million pieces might sound like a lot, Arabidopsis has the smallest genome of any flowering plant, which is the main reason it was selected as a model organism for genome sequencing.

It has one of the smallest genomes of any bacteria species, but despite its simplicity, it is difficult to culture outside of a human host, making it tricky for microbiologists to determine what exactly allows it to harm us.