Supergene

"We were blown away by what we found," said Mathieu Joron of France's National Museum of Natural History, who led the probe into what is being called a "supergene". ❋ Unknown (2011)

There was also talk of a "supergene" with copper deposits of up to 50 per cent -- who could tell? ❋ Unknown (2010)

There is a furious international scientific race with plant breeders from America, Britain, Russia, Australia, India—and probably China—all trying to identify this supergene so they can patent it. ❋ Peter Pringle (2007)

Breeding crop plants resistant to such plagues would be much quicker, and cheaper, once the apomictic supergene has been identified. ❋ Peter Pringle (2007)

Mechanisms that concentrate chemical elements operate most effectively on and near the earth's surface: weathering, erosion, sorting during transport, groundwater leaching, and supergene enrichment are effective only in the upper few hundred meters of the continents. ❋ Earl Cook (2007)

If Scott had found the supergene for apomixis, and if he planned to patent it himself, he would need the seeds to file a patent. ❋ Peter Pringle (2007)

Well, Minister, they call it the race to find a supergene that controls asexual reproduction in plants, known as apomixis. ❋ Peter Pringle (2007)

New research on a supergene linking brain power and a long, healthy life. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Starting from three different directions, your long journey has led you, after many adventures, to the same supergene area, the major histocompatibility complex, and through it to this happy event tonight. ❋ Unknown (1992)

The development of this field from an outlandish rejection reaction in inbred mice to the mighty supergene system of today that all immunologists, cancer research workers and many virologists and developmental biologists meet in their daily work is one of the most exciting chapters in the enormous building of modern biology. ❋ Unknown (1992)

It is a large region, it can be called a supergene. ❋ Unknown (1992)

Hypogene ores are dominantly primary, and supergene ores are dominantly secondary, but either may include both primary and secondary ores. ❋ Unknown (1915)

The researchers have identified three versions of the supergene, in all of which a certain segment of DNA is present in reverse order to the usual sequence. ❋ By NICHOLAS WADE (2011)

This is probably how the supergene escapes the usual shuffling process, which depends on the alignment of DNA strands based on similarity of their DNA sequences. ❋ By NICHOLAS WADE (2011)

Each of the three versions of the supergene has its component genes in a different order. ❋ By NICHOLAS WADE (2011)

There had been some theoretical suggestion that a supergene mechanism might be involved in Heliconius's mimicry. ❋ By NICHOLAS WADE (2011)

It has locked together in a supergene a cluster of 18 genes involved in specifying the wing pattern. ❋ By NICHOLAS WADE (2011)

The different versions of the supergene coexist in a dominance hierarchy. ❋ By NICHOLAS WADE (2011)

If the mother and father have different wing patterns, the offspring will display the pattern of whichever version of the supergene is dominant. ❋ By NICHOLAS WADE (2011)