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- noun Alternative spelling of
wild type .
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They don't understand how two genes can both affect one phenotype, in this case that the genes each code for an enzyme that produces a pigment pink and blue respectively and that the pigments mix to produce the purple wildtype flower colour.
Archive 2007-02-01 Rosie Redfield 2007
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However, in abusive childhood environments, one variant (low levels of MAOA) results in a much higher incidence of adult antisocial behavior, whereas those with the wildtype (most common variant with high levels of MAOA) gene generally do no develop antisocial behavior in adulthood.
On Stalin, Child Abuse, and Crime - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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They don't understand how two genes can both affect one phenotype, in this case that the genes each code for an enzyme that produces a pigment pink and blue respectively and that the pigments mix to produce the purple wildtype flower colour.
Too easy or too hard? Rosie Redfield 2007
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The only ‘feedback’ that evolution provides in nature comes via selection natural or sexual, and it is only in the form of “this phenotype is better/worse than the current wildtype”.
Vacuity of ID: Comments on Irreducible Complexity - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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Pedro Santamaria, a postdoc with whom I shared the lab in Freiburg, was a skillful transplantation person, he did some attempts to rescue the dorsal phenotype by transplantation of wildtype cytoplasm.
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These studies were started with the mutants bicoid and oskar, but also extended to wildtype embryos.
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However, this breaks down if treatment of the wildtype cells reduces the firing rate from 1000/min to 850/min.
The Guardian World News Ben Goldacre 2011
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In situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry of developing wildtype mouse testes revealed EHD1 expression in most cells of the seminiferous epithelia.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Mark Rainey 2010
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In situ hybridization and immunohistochemistry of developing wildtype mouse testes revealed EHD1 expression in most cells of the seminiferous epithelia.
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Merck Serono, a division of Merck KGaA (MKGAY), announced that Erbitux can now be used in Japan in combination with chemotherapy in the first-line treatment for patients with advanced or recurrent colorectal cancer carrying the KRAS wildtype gene
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