Agra Professional Services Division last week hosted an interactive breakfast to discuss and investigate the potential of
genetic mapping of local animal species.
McMullen's
genetic mapping work has revealed enormous differences among families of corn plants with regard to recombination rates, which are the frequencies of physical exchanges of chromosomal portions from the different parents of a cross.
The DNA molecules are useful for specifying a gene product in cells, either as a promoter or as a protein coding sequence or as an UTR or as a 3' termination sequence, and are also useful in controlling the behavior of a gene in the chromosome, in controlling the expression of a gene or as tools for
genetic mapping, recognizing or isolating identical or related DNA fragments, or identification of a particular individual organism, or for clustering of a group of organisms with a common trait.
The two local competitors are Floragenex, a spin-out of lab research at the University of Oregon that has developed a faster, cheaper way to conduct
genetic mapping of plants and animals.
Although only a single [approximately equal to] 300 sequence alignment for each gene was obtained, 92% exhibited sequence polymorphism, indicating that an SNP strategy will permit
genetic mapping of essentially any maize gene of interest.
These DNA chips are used in many areas of basic and clinical research, including the detection of drug resistance mutations in infectious organisms, direct DNA sequence comparison of large segments of the human genome, the monitoring of multiple human genes for cancer-associated mutations, the quantitative and parallel comparison of in RNA expression for thousands of human genes, and the physical and
genetic mapping of the human genome.
Genetic mapping of the Kuruma prawn Penaeus japonicus using AFLP marker.
Fine-scale
genetic mapping indicates two traits characteristic of Y chromosomes, Ming and his colleagues report in the Jan.
Targeted to investors, researchers, analysts and venture capital firms, the letter will cover the range of nanoblotech topics, including new drugs, drug delivery systems, diagnostics,
genetic mapping and medical device technology.
Moraes noted that the company is also participating in the Genolyptus project that involves
genetic mapping of eucalyptus.
Some of the country's top experts in the fields of bioethics, genetics, and disability will examine legal and ethical issues raised by advances in
genetic mapping and testing and their impact on defining disability in a symposium hosted by the Florida State University College of Law.
To date, distributed computing projects have generally focused on laborious scientific endeavors, such as human
genetic mapping or compiling an inventory of all known craters on Mars.
