News tagged with retrotransposons
Parasites in the genome -- A molecular parasite could play an important role in human evolution
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Jan 19, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany, determined the structure of a protein (L1ORF1p), which is encoded by a parasitic genetic element and which is responsible ...
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Kansas state flower receives scientific attention
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Apr 09, 2008 |
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Anyone who has seen Kansas prairies in late summer to early fall can attest to the abundance of sunflowers decorating fields and lining roadways, giving Kansas the well deserved nickname, the Sunflower State.
Jumping genes discovery 'challenges current assumptions'
Jun 12, 2009 |
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Jumping genes do most of their jumping, not during the development of sperm and egg cells, but during the development of the embryo itself. The research, published this month in Genes and Development, "challenges standard assump ...
New research shows how gene function drives natural selection in important class of genetic elements
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Dec 10, 2008 |
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Transposons are the Clark Kents of a genome. Apparently mild-mannered and inconsequential but with sudden bursts of activity, these free-floating bits of genetic material have for millions of years been sneaking ...
International team cracks mammalian gene control code
Apr 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international consortium of scientists, including researchers from The University of Queensland (UQ), have probed further into the human genome than ever before.
Mapping a clan of mobile selfish genes
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Oct 22, 2008 |
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Much of human DNA is the genetic equivalent of e-mail spam: short repeated sequences that have no obvious function other than making more of themselves.
Study finds value in 'junk' DNA
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Oct 17, 2008 |
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For about 15 years, scientists have known that certain "junk" DNA -- repetitive DNA segments previously thought to have no function -- could evolve into exons, which are the building blocks for protein-coding genes in higher ...
Plant polymerases IV and V are special forms of Polymerase II
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Jan 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It's a little like finding out that Superman is actually Clark Kent. A team of biologists at Washington University in St. Louis has discovered that two vital cellular components, nuclear RNA ...
Shedding light on the 'dark matter' of genetics: New gene-silencing pathway found in plants
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Nov 17, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Biologists at Washington University in St. Louis have made major headway in explaining a mechanism by which plant cells silence potentially harmful genes.
Researchers solve piece of large-scale gene silencing mystery
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Dec 04, 2008 |
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A team led by Craig Pikaard, Ph.D., WUSTL professor of biology in Arts & Sciences, has made a breakthrough in understanding the phenomenon of nucleolar dominance, the silencing of an entire parental set of ribosomal RNA genes ...
PLoS Genetics 2009 maize genome collection
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Maize is an important crop in many countries of the world. It is widely used for human consumption, animal feed, and industrial materials. It also is considered an exemplar plant species for studying domestication, molecular ...
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