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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"jumping genes"”.
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Observing and quantifying transposable element activity inside living cells
… by the activity of transposable elements, ‘jumping genes’ that are ubiquitous to all life forms. To study their dynamics in higher resolution, transposable elements were genetically engineered for tunable expression inside living cells, then tracked in real time using fluorescence …
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Fluctuations and response in complex biological systems: Watching stochastic evolutionary and ecological pattern dynamics
… dynamics. Transposons, also known as ""jumping genes,"" are found in all organisms and have activity that can cause mutations and drive evolution. As part of this collaboration I developed the software for image analysis of the cells and analyzed the resulting statistics of events. We …
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Strategies of Sexual Reproduction in Aphids
… sollten Mutationen für ameiotische Parthenogenese ihren kurzfristigen Reproduktionserfolg verdoppeln, weil sie in jedem Gameten vertreten sein werden. Dies wirft zwei Fragen auf. 1) Warum sind die meisten Tiere und Pflanzen sexuell, obwohl asexuelle Konkurrenten kurzfristig einen doppelt so …