News tagged with genetic linkage maps
Dissecting the genomes of crop plants to improve breeding potential
Scientists on the Norwich Research Park, working with colleagues in China, have developed new techniques that will aid the application of genomics to breeding the improved varieties of crop needed to ensure ...
Jul 31, 2011 |
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Mapping the crocodile genome
The first ever genetic linkage map for a non-avian member of the Class Reptilia has been developed. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Genomics have constructed a first-generation genetic linkage map for th ...
Jul 28, 2009 |
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The curious chromosomes of a curious fruit
Incipient sex chromosomes have been found in New Zealand's eponymous export, the kiwifruit. Researchers writing in the open access journal BMC Genomics have mapped the kiwifruit genome and pin-pointed the sex-determining locus. ...
Mar 09, 2009 |
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Maps of Miscanthus genome offer insight into grass evolution
Miscanthus grasses are used in gardens, burned for heat and energy, and converted into liquid fuels. They also belong to a prominent grass family that includes corn, sorghum and sugarcane. Two new, indepe ...
May 15, 2012 |
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Foxtail millet genome sequence completed
BGI, in cooperation with Zhangjiakou Academy of Agricultural Science, has completed the genome sequence and analysis of foxtail millet (Setaria italica), the second-most widely planted species of millet. This study provid ...
May 13, 2012 |
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Nanotube growth theory experimentally confirmed
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Air Force Research Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio, has experimentally confirmed a theory by Rice University Professor Boris Yakobson that foretold a pair of interesting properties about nanotube ...
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Jan 30, 2012 |
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Mapping out pathways to better soybeans
Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are a step closer to unlocking genetic clues that may lead to packing more protein and oil into soybeans, a move that would boost their value and help U.S. growers compete in ...
Jul 19, 2010 |
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Scientists move a step closer to understanding why leopards can't change their spots
The leopard cannot change its spots, nor can the tiger change its stripes, but a new research report published in the January 2009 issue of the journal Genetics tells us something about how cats end up wit ...
Jan 13, 2010 |
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Reference Genome of Maize Published (w/ Podcast)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A four-year, multi-institutional effort co-led by three Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists culminated today in publication of a landmark series of papers in the journal Science reveal ...
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Genome sequence for the domestic horse unveiled
The whole genome sequence of the domestic horse has been completed by the genome-sequencing center of The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, in collaboration with an international team of researchers that ...
Nov 05, 2009 |
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New type of genetic change identified in inherited cancer
Duke University Medical Center and National Cancer Institute scientists have discovered that a novel genetic alteration - a second copy of an entire gene - is a cause of familial chordoma, an uncommon form of cancer arising ...
Oct 04, 2009 |
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Gene map aims to combat blood flukes
The first microsatellite-based genetic linkage map has been published for Schistosoma mansoni, a blood fluke that is known to infect over 90 million people in Africa, the Middle East and the New World. Researchers writin ...
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Gene hunters target child kidney failure
Researchers are zeroing in on the genetic abnormalities predisposing to vesicoureteric reflux (VUR), one of the most common causes of urinary tract infections and kidney failure in children, reports a study in an upcoming ...
May 14, 2009 |
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