Sentence examples for lost the gene from inspiring English sources

Serre says the lab-tamed parasite may have lost the gene, which is why it wasn't found in the reference sequence.

Scientists have found that pandas lost the gene that would allow them to enjoy the taste of meat about 4.2 million years ago, which is around the time the animals also switched over to their bamboo diet; fossil records show pandas going mostly veg somewhere between 7 and 2 million years ago.

It probably also lost the gene(s) responsible for RIP.

Whether additional reptiles or crocodilians have also lost the gene remains unresolved.

When its cognate binding site is lost, the gene is reactivated [ 54].

Some Basidiomycota species subsequently lost the gene (the lost events are indicated with grey symbols in Figure 5B).

Coelacanths and mammals lost the genes (thick red arrows).

Other taxa more or less have lost the genes involved in amino acid biosynthesis and the loss of genes is most severe in Prevotella intermedia.

Similarly, S. mikatae lost the genes OYE3, which encodes an NADPH oxidoreductase, and GND2, which encodes the minor isoform of 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase.

He set out to see whether losing the gene would affect the blood-making stem cells.

Gurdon overturned the prevailing idea in the 1950s that as cells specialize, they lose the genes necessary to become other cell types.