Pig geneticists go the whole hogt. J. Tabasco is something of a porcine goddess at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where her ruddy,
taxidermied head looks down from the office wall of geneticist Lawrence Schook. Now she has been immortalized in this week s Nature1 not by name,
Geneticist Martien Groenen, part of the team that sequenced the pig genome, chews the fat with Thea Cunningham.
Geneticist and veterinarian Eckhard Wolf at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany, has exploited the similarity between the human
The PRRS Host Genetics Consortium, a network of US research groups has identified a region on one chromosome that affects levels of virus in the blood during infection5.
The move is the latest in a three-year legal battle between Myriad Genetics, a diagnostics company in Salt lake city
The government has supported also work on the genetics of both the fungus and the plant. Research programmes have started in other countries, too.
however, is a process still beyond even the most advanced genetic science. You cannot realistically change one
a plant geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in T Â bingen, Germany, who co-led a study published today in the journal elife1."
evolutionary geneticists at the University of Copenhagen, looked more closely at such genes after sequencing the nuclear genomes of five herbarium strains of P. infestans.
says Susan Mccouch, a rice geneticist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New york. To prioritize species for conservation,
Myriad back in court One month after the US Supreme court invalidated gene patents held by Myriad Genetics of Salt lake city, Utah,
On 9 Â July, Myriad brought a lawsuit against Ambry Genetics of Aliso Viejo, California,
says Hopi Hoekstra, an evolutionary geneticist at Harvard university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Johnston says that to learn more,
says Norman Ellstrand, a plant geneticist at the University of California in Riverside. Â Â But now a study led by Lu Baorong, an ecologist at Fudan University in Shanghai, challenges that view:
says Brian Ford-Lloyd, a plant geneticist at the University of Birmingham, UK.""This is one of the most clear examples of extremely plausible damaging effects of GM CROPS on the environment.
Genetics lawsuit Ambry Genetics in Aliso Viejo, California, has countersued its competitor Myriad Genetics. Myriad, a medical diagnostics company in Salt lake city, Utah, sued Ambry in July for infringing patents that Myriad holds on tests for cancer-associated mutations in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.
CIAT geneticists are trying to isolate the brachialactone genes, to introduce them into crops such as wheat or rice.
Casey is at work on a follow-up genetics study to identify the most common MRSA strains in the region
Keith Adams, a plant molecular geneticist at the University of British columbia in Vancouver, Canada, thinks the idea that a genome duplication helped flowering plants to diversify is"an intriguing hypothesis
According to a study in this week's PLOS Genetics it's not the genes that matter it's how they're expressed.
The study appears in the August 15 issue of PLOS Genetics. I believe this article was written from a first person perspective.
or any approved genetically modified food on the market to allergies one of his sources plant geneticist Pamela Ronald told him.
/27/the-genetics-and-politics-of-genetically-modified-foods/Good article natarajanganesan. Did you write that?
Dr. Mezzomo led the study in concert with the Department of Genetics and Morphology and the Institute of Biological sciences at University of Brasilia and it was published in the Journal of Hematology
and Thromboembolic Diseases. http://gmoevidencecom/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/JHTD-1-104. pdfprofessor Joe Cummins (Professor Emeritus of Genetics University of Western Ontario) concurs
Shannon Pinson a USDA geneticist tells Popular Science. In the future the USDA hopes such knowledge will help breeders create rice varieties that may help with mineral deficiencies in developing countries where rice is a staple.
which points to their guesswork genetics that have continuously been presented to us as beneficial not harmful.
when the new science of genetics undermined the plausibility of the rival theories of evolution following the rediscovery of Mendel's laws of heredity in 1900.
just as about the moral and spiritual implications of modern genetics as Creationists are. So why do Creationists continue to attack Darwin a man who was as afraid of his own discoveries as they are today
Tom Gilbert a geneticist at the University of Copenhagen has found that leeches are a great way to track down rare creatures.
In 1959 a Soviet geneticist named Dmitry K. Belyaev began somewhat secretively experimenting with breeding domesticated foxes.
More than five decades thousands of foxes and one collapse of the Soviet union later the program continues at The Institute of Cytology and Genetics at Novosibirsk Siberia.
which a species is susceptible to certain pathogens based on its genetics. The model is used a widely one for checking
Now a new in depth study of the genetics of H3n2v in swine and humans in Ohio shows the epidemiological studies were right.
Earlier this month a federal court indicted a Chinese national for trying to steal GMO corn technology from Dupont Monsanto and Agreliant Genetics.
According to Wayne Parrott a crop geneticist at the University of Georgia the risk for neighboring farms is relatively low.
When it comes to chickens geneticist Carl Schmidt is working to prepare the most-dined-upon North american breeds to withstand greater heat stress in coming decades.
Three years into the project the geneticists have gathered just about all the data they ll need and will spend the next two years analyzing it:
The end result would be engineered pigs that farmers could have made through generations of careful breeding geneticists argue.
With targeted chemical mutagens geneticists have pulled off feats both impressive such as increasing the circumference of macaque monkeys thigh muscles by 15 percent and flat out disturbing like making legs sprout from the heads
Although bioweapon stockpiles are in short supply (with very good reason) Mathaudhu is confident that geneticists could synthesize whatever new plagues seem useful.
whether the bulls they use in breeding are missing copies of these four genes Goutam Sahana a Danish geneticist who worked on the study said in a statement.
But American researchers are also looking into genetics for an explanation of fertility declines in cows at home.
Last year Texas A&m announced it received a $3 million grant to study the genetics of dairy cattle fertility.
Check out the entire study in the journal PLOS Genetics.**Some hard numbers for the curious:
However how this system of haplodiploid sex determination ultimately evolved at a molecular level has remained one of the most important questions in developmental genetics.
In the December issue of Current Biology Page and Martin Beye lead author and professor with the Institute of Evolutionary Genetics in the University of Duesseldorf Germany and their collaborators laid out the final pieces of how these systems
Agricultural researchers are also studying methane reduction through improved animal genetics and methods to inhibit production of the gas during digestion.
Thanh-Lan Gluckman is a Phd candidate in the Evolutionary genetics group at the Department of Zoology at the University of Cambridge.
#Significant advance reported with genetically modified poplar treesforest geneticists at Oregon State university have created genetically modified poplar trees that grow faster have resistance to insect pests
Officially published Dec 1 in the journal G3 (Genes Genomics Genetics) the open-access research has been available online for several weeks and drawing global attention.
To enable basic and applied research of this important pest Drosophila suzukii we sequenced the genome to obtain a high-quality reference sequence said molecular geneticist Joanna Chiu of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.
and the Frank Zalom lab both in Department of Entomology and Nematology and David Begun's drosophila evolutionary genetics lab in the Department of Evolution and Ecology.
The research is published in the online journal Nature Communications with related research published in Theoretical and Applied Genetics.
Our research is now beginning to link genetics and physiology of onions allowing industry to tap into more diverse genetic resources
The researcher specialized in bee genetics points out that the developed technology was published recently on INIFAP we are in process of validation using field tests with beekeepers
The semi-dwarf Arabidopsis plants always had different genetic backgrounds explains the geneticist and were actually related to their fellow Arabidopsis plants at the same sites.
The answer may be found somewhere within the genetics of the sheep and the course of the disease assessment and control of tick populations and biological control of ticks.
Genetics researchers divide the pigs of the world into three main groups: European Far Eastern and Near Eastern.
This is the finding of an international team of scientists under the direction of Dr. Martin Hasselmann of the Institute for Genetics of the University of Cologne.
PD Dr. Martin Hasselmann has been the director of the research group Population Genetics of Social Insects at the University of Cologne as a DFG Heisenberg stipendiary since May 2012.
#Large-scale deep re-sequencing reveals cucumbers evolutionary enigmain a collaborative study published online today in Nature Genetics researchers from the Genome Centre of Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) BGI
Pigs are very like humans in their size genetics anatomy and physiology. There are plenty of them
But now findings by a Mcgill team suggest that the solution may lie not with genetics alone but rather with a combination of genetic and epigenetic factors.
Johnson whose lab studies the genetics behavior evolution and health of honeybees noted that the study showed that ants
Patrick Brown an assistant professor in plant breeding and genetics said having a complete characterization of the locations (loci) affecting specific traits will speed up the adaptation of sorghum and other related grasses to new production
#Genetics of how and why fish swim in schools: Research sheds light on complex social behaviorhow
Prior to joining Dr. Bowden's laboratory Dr. Dickinson earned her Phd through the Genetics Graduate Interdisciplinary Program at the UA studying oxidative stress and heart disease.
A team of geneticists from UCL University of Addis ababa and Roskilde University have shown that five different alleles are found in the Ethiopian population that cause adult lactase production one of which is confirmed newly.
Professor Dallas Swallow from the Department of Genetics Evolution and Environment senior author of the paper said:
Dr Bryony Jones also from the UCL Department of Genetics Evolution and Environment and lead author of the paper said:
leopardsresearch by Clemson University conservation geneticists makes the case that landscape-level tiger and leopard conservation that includes protecting the corridors the big cats use for travel between habitat patches is the most effective conservation strategy for their long-term survival.
and their mentors from different disciplines i e. anthropology archeology chemistry and genetics has been looking at the role played by milk cheese
Adam Powell a mathematician and population geneticist based in London will be contributing his skills as a modeler and statistician to the team of Mainz anthropologists.
That's happening because of increased irrigation technology crop genetics and water management strategies. As a result researchers anticipate that
and Hydrology (CEH) University of East Anglia University of Bristol and Institute of Zoology instead took advantage of bumblebees'unusual genetics.
We decided to exploit this interesting aspect of their biology using a novel combination of genetics field studies
because preharvest sprouting is a very difficult trait for wheat breeders to handle through breeding alone said Bikram Gill university distinguished professor of plant pathology and director of the Wheat Genetics Resource Center.
Gill conducted the study with Guihau Bai a researcher with the Hard Winter Wheat Genetics Research Unit of the USDA-ARS adjunct professor of agronomy at Kansas State university and the study's lead author.
and Characterization of a Critical Regulator for Pre-Harvest Sprouting in Wheat appears in a recent issue of the scientific journal Genetics.
#Unscrambling the genetics of the chickens blue eggresearchers at The University of Nottingham have unscrambled the genetic mutation that gives the distinctive blue eggs laid by some breeds of chickens.
Geneticists have puzzled long over why individuals of the same sex show a greater or lesser degree of sexual attractiveness.
In a new study published today in the journal PLOS Genetics scientists turned to male wild turkeys to solve the problem.
Professor Judith Mank UCL Department of Genetics Evolution & Environment senior author of the paper said:#
A team of Smithsonian scientists however uncovered overlooked museum specimens of this remarkable animal which took them on a journey from museum cabinets in Chicago to cloud forests in South america to genetics labs in Washington D c. The result:
But as geneticists analyze more and more ants new genetic differences are becoming apparent and so there could be 100000 ant species Longino said.
He is seeking funding for genetics research to better analyze and perhaps redefine classifications for ants in four or five ant genuses or genera.
and genetics data collected by a consortium of research groups scientists have strengthened evidence pointing to the central Gulf of Maine as a mating ground for North Atlantic right whales according to a study recently published online in the journal Endangered
and a rallying point for activists in recent years says Robert A. Martienssen Ph d. scientific cofounder of Orion Genomics who is also a professor of plant genetics at CSHL.
His latest findings which take a close look at the genetics of hull color appear in the July 17 2013 online issue of the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
Phil Apong senior formulation specialist/researcher at Iovate Health Sciences said dietary recommendations for bodybuilders depend on many factors such as genetics age gender and body size.
The results recently published in Nature Genetics and PNAS respectively unveil a long shared history of co-evolution between the host and the pest and the unexpected success of asexually produced mildew offspring.
Andres Salcedo doctoral candidate in genetics from Mexico; and Cyrille Saintenac a postdoctoral research associate currently working at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique in France.
and used a combination of statistics genetics and evolutionary models to determine that the absence of large seed-dispersing birds in the area was the main reason for the observed decrease in the palm's seed size.
Dr Chatterjee is currently a Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) ETS Walton Fellow at NUI Galway collaborating with the SFI Genetics and Biotechnology Lab of Professor Charles Spillane.
and plant geneticist Zuyu Zheng says this karrikin-induced shape change may send a new signal to other proteins in the seeds.
Wheat genome shows resistance genes easy to accessit's hard to go anywhere without a map--especially into the deep and complex world of genetics.
Nutrient recommendations may not be calibrated to modern higher-yielding genetics and management. The study examined six hybrids each with transgenic insect protection at two Illinois locations Dekalb and Urbana.
Mimi Kessler a doctoral candidate in biology at the School of Life sciences has spent more than two years on Eurasian grasslands studying habitat use population genetics causes of mortality and migration routes of the Asian great bustards.
and less infected mosquitoes would need to be released in a disease control program said Professor Ary Hoffmann from the University of Melbourne's Bio21 Institute and Department of Genetics.
Abnormally higher levels of ROS can cause neural stem cells to start differentiating Guan is a professor in the Molecular Medicine & Genetics division of the U-M Department of Internal medicine and in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology.
-M Department of Neurology research lab member Christine Bian and Yuan Zhu Ph d. an associate professor in Molecular Medicine & Genetics and Cell & Developmental Biology.
Genetics) SFU molecular biology and biochemistry professor; Inanc Birol SFU computing science adjunct professor; Dezene Huber (Phd Biol;
Adapting a novel form of insect resistance discovered in a wild plant native to Peru Mutschler-Chu professor of plant breeding and genetics first isolated the resistance.
Recently plant geneticists at the University of Georgia successfully isolated the gene that creates dwarfed varieties of pearl millet.
Genes Genomics Genetics. The dwarf varieties are economically important in the U s. India and Africa in particular.
and Environmental sciences'Institute of Plant Breeding Genetics and Genomics housed in the department of crop and soil sciences and the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences'department of plant biology.
In the new study researchers turned to lettuce genetics to better understand the temperature-related mechanisms governing seed germination.
These achievements are the results of joint efforts led by the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology (IGDB) Chinese Academy of Sciences Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) and BGI.
Inheritance behavior in corn breaks accepted rules of geneticsnew research explains how certain traits can pass down from one generation to the next--at least in plants--without following the accepted rules of genetics.
#Genomes of peregrine and saker falcons throw lights on evolution of a predatory lifestylein a collaborative study published online in Nature Genetics researchers from Cardiff University BGI International Wildlife Consultants Ltd
The immaculateness of both genetic and foster mother's white cheek patch was related to the strength of chick's immune response suggesting that this was due to both nurture and genetics.
and genetics of trees and scientists are turning to long-domesticated fruit trees for hints. The relationship between a peach and a poplar may not be obvious at first glance
In the March 24 edition of Nature Genetics Schmutz and several colleagues were part of the International Peach Genome Initiative (IPGI) that published the 265-million base genome of the Lovell variety of Prunus persica.
#Whole genome sequencing of wild rice reveals the mechanisms underlying oryza genome evolutionin a collaborative study published online March 13 in Nature Communications researchers from Institute of Genetics
or PCR (a genetics tool) the Ecovative founders are grateful for their higher-ed partners.
University of Arizona geneticists have discovered the oldest known genetic branch of the human Y chromosome--the hereditary factor determining male sex.
A new study a highlight in the March issue of the journal Genetics provides the latest plot twist.
In the Genetics study conducted at Brown University scientists uncover new clues about how the SD gene might be gaming the system against a. It's a plot
which life violates a fundamental balance predicted by the father of genetics Gregor Mendel. Mendel's first law is that different alleles of a gene will segregate said Robert Reeenan professor of biology and the study's senior author.
In the experiments described in Genetics Reenan and Gell show that engineered mutations in the police gene named Aubergine (others on the force in the experiments are called Piwi Squash
DNA barcodes can be used to identify even very closely related species finds an article published in Biomed Central's open access journal Investigative Genetics.
Study results appeared online Feb 3 in Nature Genetics. What is RNA silencing and what is its significance?
#Plant scientists demonstrate new means of boosting maize yieldsa team of plant geneticists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has demonstrated successfully
and colleagues published online February 3 in Nature Genetics represent the culmination of over a decade of research
Researchers have been trying to find the underlying genetics of Kranz anatomy so we can engineer it into C3 crops said Thomas Slewinski lead author of a paper that appeared online in November in the journal Plant and Cell Physiology.
and stems the genetics that controlled those cell types may also be shared. Slewinski looked for experimental maize lines with mutant Scarecrow genes
New genetics research underscores importance of protecting forest corridorsas rapid economic expansion continues to shape the Asian landscape on
The authors of the two papers used fecal samples to analyze the genetics of tiger and leopard populations in four reserves in central India:
In addition to Sharma and Dutta the papers'other SCBI authors are Jesã s Maldonado a research geneticist at SCBI's Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics and John Seidensticker head of SCBI
The latest study was published online January 13 in Nature Genetics. The diamondback moth (Plutella xylostella) preferentially feeds on economically important food crops such as rapeseed cauliflower and cabbage.
This approach known as'reverse genetics'allowed them to control the viral genome and identify a gene (called NSS) involved in protecting the virus against the immune response of infected animals.
In a recent paper published in PLOS Genetics he and Joseph Pickrell a former University of Chicago researcher now at Harvard described a software model they developed that can infer the history of population splits and mixtures within a species based on modern DNA.
#Genetic history of tomatoes revealed by new sequencingthis week an international team of researchers led by the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing is publishing in the journal Nature Genetics a brief genomic history
The C. M. Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center here at UC Davis played an important role in this study by providing seed of both cultivated tomato varieties and related wild
and highlight the important role that the Rick Tomato Genetics Resource Center and similar collections play in housing much of the genetic variability that will be critical for future breeding and research on tomato.
Scientists from the Department of Molecular biology and Genetics at Izmir Institute of technology in Turkey published a unique study in Hortscience that compared antioxidant traits for wild tomatoes with those of cultivated varieties.
We can measure entire root systems for thousands of plants to give geneticists the information they need to search for genes with the best characteristics.
Data generated by the new technique will be used in subsequent analyses to help understand how changes in genetics affect plant growth.
The paper was published online in Genetics. Story Source: The above story is provided based on materials by Purdue University.
The first generation of the new data resource which will be open access forms an essential tool for scientists working with cattle genetics and livestock history.
The results are published in an article in the scientific journal Nature Genetics. It's momentous says one of the scientists behind the international effort associate professor Bernt Guldbrandtsen from the Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics Department of Molecular biology and Genetics Aarhus University.
Scientists from Aarhus University--the only Danish university to participate--have been part of the consortium from the start
The article in Nature Genetics describes data from 232 bulls and two cows of the breeds Angus Holstein Jersey and Fleckvieh.
He is supplemented by professor Mogens Sandã¸Lund director of the Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics at the Department of Molecular biology and Genetics Aarhus University:
New basis for genetic work The scientists explain that the database will become the standard reference within bovine genetics.
and for more information and studies on the history of cattle explains postdoc Rasmus Froberg Brã¸ndum also from the Center for Quantitative Genetics and Genomics.
Growers should not rely too heavily on modern genetics to give them the yields they expect without spending a considerable amount of effort on maintaining nutrient availability throughout the growing season.
The findings which appear in PLOS Genetics could help researchers build better defense responses in corn and other plants;
USDA plant geneticist and breeder Jim Holland co-authored the paper along with first authors Bode Olukolu
Using this multidisciplinary approach bringing together anthropologists geneticists and agronomists this work shows the role of human societies in the geographic distribution and evolution of the genetic diversity of crop plants.
By questioning the impact of the discovery of agriculture on the history of genetics and demographics in Africa this work highlights a major question:
Wild rabbits also serve as an excellent model for genetic studies of the early stages of species formation as shown in an accompanying study we publish today in PLOS Genetics adds Miguel Carneiro.
Nutrition Research center Epidemiology and Genetics Core. An unhealthy diet has long been considered a major contributor to the development of diabetes
A recent study published online August 24 2014 in Nature Genetics offers a more in depth population-based approach to identifying such mechanisms for adaptation
#Evolutionary history of honeybees revealed by genomicsin a study published in Nature Genetics researchers from Uppsala University present the first global analysis of genome variation in honeybees.
Perry and colleagues looked at the genetics of the Batwa rainforest hunter-gatherers of Uganda
The fact that they are not suggests that both of these Pygmy phenotypes arose independently separated geographically with different underlying genetics
#Statistical model predicts performance of hybrid ricegenomic prediction a new field of quantitative genetics is a statistical approach to predicting the value of an economically important trait in a plant such as yield or disease resistance.
Now a research team led by plant geneticists at the University of California Riverside and Huazhong Agricultural University China has used the method to predict the performance of hybrid rice (for example the yield growth-rate and disease resistance).
Rice and maize are two main crops that depend on hybrid breeding said Shizhong Xu a professor of genetics in the UC Riverside Department of Botany
In genetics dominance describes the joint action of two different alleles (copies) of a gene.
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