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How fruit flies pick a mate in just 15 minutes
Posted by Chris Sheridan-Case Western on November 17th, 2014
Dog gene holds clues for neural tube defects
Posted by Pat Bailey-UC Davis on July 24th, 2013
UC DAVIS (US) — Scientists have discovered a gene related to neural tube defects in dogs, as well as evidence that the gene may be a key risk factor for anencephaly and spina bifida in humans. Human neural tube defects affect more than 300,000 babi…
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Tags: anencephaly, Birth Defects, Dogs, Genes, Health Medicine, journal of science news, Neural Tube Defects, Pets, publication science, science from world, Science Journal, science live, Science News, science portal, Spina Bifida, University of California at Davis 
No Comments »Oops: “A Large Proportion of the Mammalian Genome is Functional”
Posted by Cornelius Hunter on July 13th, 2013
No sooner had Dan Graur finished his talk at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution this week on how if ENCODE’s conclusion (that much of our genome is functional rather than junk) is true, then evolution is false, but that ENCODE most assuredly is not true, that the human genome… more
Posted in Science General Tags: Annual Meeting, Conclusion, Copyright Infringement, Exceptionalism, Explicit Permission, Genes, Human Genome, Inexorable March, Intelligent Design, journal of science news, Junk Dna, Laughs, Mammalian Genome, Molecular Biology And Evolution, Mother Nature, News Aggregator, Personal, Proportion, publication science, Pufferfish, Science, science from world, Science Journal, science live, Science News, science portal, Uncommon Descent, Unoriginal No Comments »Bull fertility may hinge on gene diversity
Posted by Matthew Swayne-Penn State on July 12th, 2013
PENN STATE (US) — In trying to understand dwindling fertility rates in cattle, researchers find the Y chromosomes of cattle have far more genes than other mammals. This discovery may help biologists better understand how cattle and other mammals evo…
Posted in Physics, Science General, Technology, breeding Tags: Agriculture, Animal Breeders, Animal Genomics, Associate Professor, Biologists, Cattle, Cattle Industry, Discovery, Diversity, Farmers, Fertility, Fertility Rates, food, Genes, journal of science news, Liu, Mammals, Milk, Penn State, publication science, science from world, Science Journal, science live, Science News, science portal, Science Technology, Y Chromosomes No Comments »Understanding bulls’ gene-rich Y chromosomes may improve herd fertility
Posted by e! Science News - Latest science news on July 11th, 2013
The Y chromosomes of cattle have more genes and are more active than the Y chromosomes of other primates, according to researchers.
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