Sentence examples for colour mutations from inspiring English sources

Colour mutations can only proliferate in populations if they are seen as desirable and are sexually selected for.

The changes that time brings to works of art, the cracks and colour mutations and even grime, are part of its life.

Mistakenly called lovebird, this 19-cm (7.5-inch) parakeet has hundreds of colour mutations from the green and yellow basic stock; but cheek spots and close barring on the upper parts usually persist.

Colour mutations include albinos and erythrists.

Occasionally, colour mutations, including albinos and erythrists, occur.

Recently, causal mutations for quail plumage colours yellow[ 1], recessive black[ 2], and roux[ 3] have been characterized and found to be homologous to known coat colour mutations in mice.

It is assumed that the colour pattern of RP is derived from crossbreeding with Narragansett and perhaps another variety, as Nset colour mutation is a component of the final RP colour (Smith et al., 2005).

One of the first things we found was that there was an endogenous virus present only in inbred strains with a coat-colour mutation called dilute.

From there, it was easy to determine that this was a germline insertion (which probably happened in Asia many hundreds of years ago) that inactivated a gene to cause this coat-colour mutation.

In this study, we have investigated a Chinese family with piebaldism and auburn hair colour; the mutation screening of KIT and MC1R genes has identified only a splicing mutation (c. 2484+1G>A) in KIT gene that cosegregated with the piebaldism and auburn hair color in the family.

Fig. 2 a Lollipop plots showing the distribution of mutations (colour coded as Fig. 1) across the protein-coding regions of the two most commonly mutated oncogenes (KRAS and EGFR) and tumour suppressors (TP53 and CDKN2A).