Sentences with phrase «transferring foreign genes»
UPDATE: It appears that tardigrades may not be transferring foreign genes into their own as much as some scientists think.
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Goldstein and colleagues had reported that tardigrades imported about 17 percent of their genes from foreign sources using a type of DNA swapping known as horizontal gene transfer (SN Online: 11/25/15).
The virus transferred the blueprint of the human alpha - synuclein gene specifically into neurons of the midbrain, which then began producing large quantities of the foreign protein.
In an impressive example of horizontal gene transfer, the whitefly has acquired 142 genes from bacteria or fungi, including some coding for enzymes that break down foreign chemicals.