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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
introgress . - adjective Subject to
introgression
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Examples
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Can the Neanderthal nuclear DNA found to be introgressed into modern humans be used to study human adaptation and migration?
Modern humans may have inherited some Neanderthal genes - The Panda's Thumb 2010
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If we did interbreed, we should be able to point to certain genes, and say, there, that one, that's a gene that was introgressed.
Quantifying Neanderthal introgression by serial coalescent simulations Kosmo 2009
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Probably many less if any at all, especially cosndiering that reconstruction of all Neanderthal genome so far has produced no single gene that can be considered introgressed into modern humans.
Quantifying Neanderthal introgression by serial coalescent simulations Kosmo 2009
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Unlike you, I really HAD expected some Neanderthal DNA to have introgressed into us, but so far it looks like the new DNA evidence is showing that's not the case.
Neanderthal DNA Kosmo 2008
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There may be other genes though that may have introgressed from Neanderthals - but I can't think of any candidate right now.
Neanderthal DNA Kosmo 2008
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I really do not expect much Neanderthal DNA to have introgressed into us but I know that the fans of Neanderthal introgression will be very frustrated if there's not at least one gene, even if it's a silly useless one, that has made its way from them into us.
Neanderthal DNA Kosmo 2008
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Unlike you, I really HAD expected some Neanderthal DNA to have introgressed into us, but so far it looks like the new DNA evidence is showing that's not the case.
Neanderthal DNA Kosmo 2008
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And these introgressed herds are unlikely to be fixed for any cattle genes, so the original bison alleles still have every chance to compete with the cattle alleles.
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In the first, a localized modern population represents the hybrid descendants of a 13,000-year-old fossil form from the same area, introgressed with the modern form now characteristic of the adjacent regions.
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American researchers are currently performing experimental crosses between sorghum and johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense), a perennial forage that has already introgressed with sorghum to become a pernicious weed in the United States.
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