EDA in Biological News

Natural seed treatment could drastically cut pesticide use

...o use the technology. 'The potential for significant yield improvement due to the lessening of plant damage caused by pests is very exciting,' says eda Reinot, head of research and development at Becker Underwood. 'When we first set out to test jasmonic acid on seeds, it seemed unlikely it would wor...

Fitness in a changing world

...teral plates if they have at least one copy of the eda complete version of the gene (heterozygous or homozygous for the eda complete allele). The fish lack the full complemen...ypothesized that selection would always be for the eda low allele in freshwater. An experimental test ...

Researchers document rapid, dramatic 'reverse evolution' in the threespine stickleback fish

...ting. Peichel was the first person to home in on the neighborhood where the eda gene lives while a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of David Kings...umans and the bony plates on the fish, Peichel said. It also looks like the eda gene was probably important for human evolution although we dont really kno...

Octopuses occasionally stroll around on two arms, UC Berkeley biologists report

... passed as a unit through families." Research had already shown that the eda gene makes a protein, a signaling molecule called ectodermal dysplasin. Thi...and off on cue." So it seems that evolution of the fish is based on how the eda gene is used; how, when and where it is activated during embryonic growth. ...

Researchers trace evolution to relatively simple genetic changes

... passed as a unit through families." Research had already shown that the eda gene makes a protein, a signaling molecule called ectodermal dysplasin. Thi...and off on cue." So it seems that evolution of the fish is based on how the eda gene is used; how, when and where it is activated during embryonic growth. ...

Same mutation aided evolution in many fish species, Stanford study finds

...plete set of armor plates. A small number of these fish had one copy of the eda gene that contained the mutation in question. It's likely that when a po...lated, at least a few of those fish already carried the mutated copy of the eda gene. When those fish bred, some gave rise to offspring with two copies of ...