Sentences with phrase «useful genes»

It can also result in the loss of useful gene versions without breeders realizing they have done so.

In all, the researchers were able to position more than 1000 markers on the chromosome that will help them and others hunt for useful genes.

The next step was to see if useful genes could be switched on by the same method.

... Thus, the creative and laborious work required to identify therapeutically useful genes may result in products that infringe a claim to one of the multitude of ESTs.

For the dozens of labs at work on the problem, coming up with useful genes, known as transgenes, is not the hard part — it's how to transfer enough copies of the transgenes into free - ranging populations.

To avert mass deaths and preserve a reservoir of potentially useful genes, farmers could breed commercial varieties with other types of chicken — possibly at the expense of traits such as enhanced egg - laying, however.

Breeding methods have been continually evolving, becoming more sophisticated and accurate at incorporating useful genes and traits into new crop varieties.

The team hopes that the new workflow will help users unfamiliar with the complexities associated with using Compara to be able to more easily analyse phylogenetic datasets, while collating a number of useful gene family tools in one Galaxy workflow.

This notion of shuttling useful genes to and fro between species we already eat is likely to win public approval.

Unable to borrow useful genes, the studied bacteria could evolve only through random genetic mutation

«Many useful genes are carried in traditional [rice] landraces; without sequence information it is difficult to use such treasure,» he says.

As a result, the creative and laborious work required to identify therapeutically useful genes may result in products that ultimately infringe a claim to one of the multitude of ESTs.

Lost traits would be difficult to re-create, he says, because modern livestock lack living wild relatives — a reserve of potentially useful genes that has saved agricultural crops in the past.

The genome contains 3 to 4 times more DNA than other microbial genomes sequenced so far, and it's chock full of useful genes with relatively little useless DNA in the way.

DNA markers can flag the presence and location of useful genes or detrimental genes and help breeders to select the best combinations of genes.

Thinking they may have hit upon a useful gene that could reveal disease pathways, his group searched to see if the mouse mutation could also be found in schizophrenic humans.

«To be sure, it found an important and useful gene, but separating that gene from its surrounding genetic material is not an act of invention.»

They can share these plasmids with other bacteria, to essentially give them useful genes, called bacterial conjugation.

You can do anything as long as you find the ingredients to accomplish it, and you never know what sort of useful gene you can uncover in the Monsties you hatch.

The result is eventually the same: peripherally - useful genes are infused into the more central population.