Pseudogene

Less is more, gene study shows

... a working copy. "This is another indication that loss of the gene would be good for the individual, but it doesn't show that the gene became a pseudogene because of that advantage." However, using population genetics techniques, the researchers were able to demonstrate just that. They also determined ...

Cats' indifference towards sugar explained

... to Brand, Xia Li (lead author of the study), and their coauthors, cats do not produce one of the proteins, because the gene that codes for it is a pseudogene and is not functional. It is this lack of a functional sweet receptor that explains cats' indifference to sweet stimuli. Cats have no way to ...

Pseudogene in Biological Technology

QIAGEN Multiplex PCR Handbook

... 9. Amplification of pseudogene sequences Primers may anneal to pseudogene sequences and additional PCR products may be amplified. ...

DNA-free A NEW Method to Remove DNA

... liver RNA (0.5 g) was used in RT-PCR. The S15 PCE primers span an intron-exon junction. Products from both the gene and the pseudogene for this message are detected in the minus-RT reaction. Getting Rid of Contaminating DNA and the DNase Used to ...

Fast Isolation of Total RNA from Small Numbers of Cells

... 8 The Mx4000 molecular beacon GAPDH expression analysis kit specifically detects GAPDH mRNA sequences but not genomic DNA or pseudogene sequences. 9 Detecting as little as 1 pg of human total RNA or 0.01 pg of poly(A) + RNA is possible with this kit. 10 Signal ...

High-Throughput Isolation of Total RNA

... RNA samples isolated with both kits using primers specific for GAPDH. These primers amplify a 209-bp product from cDNA and from pseudogene sequences in genomic DNA. We performed cDNA synthesis reactions both in the presence and absence of reverse transcriptase, followed ...

Pseudogene in Biological Definition

Gene duplication

... and now the other gene locus is free to mutate and discover new functions. Alternatively, the gene may acquire deleterious mutations and become a pseudogene . The postulate that gene duplication has a major role in evolution was developed in the 1980s and is now widely accepted as a major ...

Isozyme

... the new variant remains identical to the original, then it is likely that one or the other will be lost as mutations accumulate, resulting in a pseudogene . However, if the mutations do not immediately prevent the enzyme from functioning, but instead modify either its function, or its pattern of gene ...

Pseudogene in Biological Dictionary

Pseudogene

... A pseudogene structure in 5S DNA of Xenopus laevis" ... The putatively functional Mkrn1-p1 pseudogene is neither expressed nor imprinted, ... Welcome to pseudogene .org. The site is developed and maintained by ...