Sentences with phrase «very same gene»

Researchers analyzed the genomes of 16 related orange and white tigers in captivity, fully mapping those of the three parent tigers to show that a mutation in one pigment gene called SLC45A2 is at play — the very same gene that drives lighter coloring in people of European ancestry, chickens, and some mice.

Not exact matches

Obviously they'd have common genes because we are very similar, but the organization of those genes and the location of random events, like retro - virus insertions, didn't have to be the same.

Just as we now routinely shuffle the genes of plants and animals to produce a variety of outcomes (smarter, bigger, leaner), so we stand on the very edge of attempting the same thing with human beings.

Even though identical twins share the same genes, they can be very different in many ways.

However, last August a team headed by plant ecologist Allison Snow at Ohio State University demonstrated that this same gene might produce some very tough weeds: She found that wild sunflowers crossed with Bt sunflowers produced offspring that suffered significantly less insect - related damage and produced 50 percent more seeds than control plants without the gene.

The team then compared how similar gut bacteria were in identical twins (which have the same set of genes) and non-identical twins (who are assumed to share a very similar environment, but do not have exactly the same genes).

The organoids with the mutated gene grew to the same proportions as the first group, but they developed few folds and the ones they did develop were very different in shape from normal wrinkles.

And both bacteria displayed the very same resistance gene — most likely it had been transferred to them from bacteria living in the gastrointestinal tract.

In human achromatopsia, nearly 100 different mutations have been identified in the CNGA3 gene, including the very same one identified in the German shepherd in this study.

Says Kevin Fitzgerald, a worm researcher at Bristol - Myers Squibb, «Some of the same genes and components that are responsible for cancer, breast cancer for instance, or Alzheimer's disease, are actually found, and they seem to function very similarly, in both worms and flies.»

«Plants at the base of the plant evolutionary lineage like moss don't have the same tissues and organs as flowering plants, which evolved more recently, so the genes» roles must be very different,» Lippman says.

Philippe Froguel of Imperial College London and his colleagues, looking at data from 2154 individuals in France, found a similar association with a different genetic variation very near the same gene.

La Vanguardia, EFE, La Sexta, RTVE, among other media, have published articles about the study by Jordi Casanova, at IRB Barcelona, that reveals that the same genes can activate tumour growth and metastasis and that therefore some tumours are conferred metastatic capacity from their very outset.

While the scrawny gene has so far only been identified in fruit flies, very similar genes that may carry out the same function are known to be present in all multicellular organisms, including humans.

These are the same four genes that seemed to be very active in embryonic stem cells.

We find that overall males and females differ very little in gene expression, despite having altered behavioral responses to the same odors.

The reason can't be reduced to «sweeter blood» (sorry, Granny), but there is a genetic component: In a recent study published in Plos One, identical twins (who have the same genes) attracted mosquitoes at the same rate, while fraternal twins were bitten at very different rates.

Archos is popular for its MP3 players and compact media players and the new Tablet PC too has the same genes in that they too fundamentally seems to be a very efficient media player.

While for pure breeds the process is fairly simple and the results very evident, the same is not the case with a mixed breed, especially a second or third generation canine which will carry the genes from all its ancestors of varying breeds.

Plus, we know that purebred dogs can be sensibly more at risk with inherited medical conditions because they are all coming from the very same closed gene pool of the few dogs that started the breed.

But it is a very bad idea to breed dogs and cats that are cryptorchid because their descendants will carry the same defective genes.

I've always thought the entrepreneurial gene and the art gene were in fact the very same creative gene, just manifested differently.