Sentence examples for mutation is fixed from inspiring English sources

"We can say that one mutation is fixed in the genome for every 15 cigarettes smoked," said Peter Campbell, who led the lung cancer part of the study.

The mutation is fixed in Cornish Rex, absent in all straight haired cats analyzed, and is also segregating in the German Rex breed.

For AQ, the pfcrt 76T mutation is fixed at nearly 100% prevalence, and the pfmdr1 N86Y and D1246Y mutations are also over 80% in Tororo [26].

This non-shattering mutation is fixed in all cultivated rice varieties examined to date [ 8, 18, 24, 25], spanning the highly differentiated japonica and indica cultivar groups.

Clonal expansion of populations with greater selective advantage leads to dominant and widespread clones; however, no single mutation is fixed since competing wild-type clones are also identifiable.

Taken together, these results suggest that, although the rate of conversion of adducts into mutations may be different for lacZ and Pig-a, the kinetics of mutation accumulation for both mutation targets is the same once a mutation is fixed.

This mutation was fixed in population IR-2-20.

More importantly, although at 576 h after inoculation no mutation was fixed in the majority of the cell population, the growth rate under ethanol stress significantly increased.

The result in Fig.  5b suggested that cspC mutation was fixed on a cell with relA mutation, while the result in Fig.  5a suggested relA mutation rose to prominence before cspC mutation.

In comparison to previous works, the region analysed in this study is able to discriminate the different Fagus species as some mutation are fixed and specific for each Fagus species.

In agreement with the genetic diversity estimations a high number of potentially damaging mutations is fixed in the breeds Mangalica, Cinta Senese, Tamworth and Gloucester Old Spots (Additional file 4).