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Although jawless vertebrates are apparently capable of adaptive immune responses, they have not been found to possess the recombinatorial antigen receptors shared by all jawed vertebrates. Our search for the phylogenetic roots of adaptive immunity in the lamprey has instead identified a new type of variable lymphocyte receptors (VLRs) composed of highly diverse leucine-rich repeats (LRR) sandwiched between amino- and carboxy-terminal LRRs. An invariant stalk region tethers the VLRs to the cell surface by means of a glycosyl-phosphatidyl-inositol anchor. To generate rearranged VLR genes of the diversity necessary for an anticipatory immune system, the single lamprey VLR locus contains a large bank of diverse LRR cassettes, available for insertion into an incomplete germline VLR gene. Individual lymphocytes express a uniquely rearranged VLR gene in monoallelic fashion. Different evolutionary strategies were thus used to generate highly diverse lymphocyte receptors through rearrangement of LRR modules in agnathans (jawless fish) and of immunoglobulin gene segments in gnathostomes (jawed vertebrates). 相似文献
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We consider the problem of online prediction when it is uncertain what the best prediction model to use is. We develop a method called dynamic latent class model averaging, which combines a state‐space model for the parameters of each of the candidate models of the system with a Markov chain model for the best model. We propose a polychotomous regression model for the transition weights to assume that the probability of a change in time depends on the past through the values of the most recent time periods and spatial correlation among the regions. The evolution of the parameters in each submodel is defined by exponential forgetting. This structure allows the ‘correct’ model to vary over both time and regions. In contrast to existing methods, the proposed model naturally incorporates clustering and prediction analysis in a single unified framework. We develop an efficient Gibbs algorithm for computation, and we demonstrate the value of our framework on simulated experiments and on a real‐world problem: forecasting IBM's corporate revenue. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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Summary Cellular adhesion in sea urchin blastulae, normal and vegetalized by treatment with lithium ions, strengthened as development proceeded. This tendency was arrested in the embryos animalized by treatment with zinc ions.The authors thank Mr T. Shinkai and S. Sone for their technical assistance. 相似文献
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Mikkelsen TS Wakefield MJ Aken B Amemiya CT Chang JL Duke S Garber M Gentles AJ Goodstadt L Heger A Jurka J Kamal M Mauceli E Searle SM Sharpe T Baker ML Batzer MA Benos PV Belov K Clamp M Cook A Cuff J Das R Davidow L Deakin JE Fazzari MJ Glass JL Grabherr M Greally JM Gu W Hore TA Huttley GA Kleber M Jirtle RL Koina E Lee JT Mahony S Marra MA Miller RD Nicholls RD Oda M Papenfuss AT Parra ZE Pollock DD Ray DA Schein JE Speed TP Thompson K VandeBerg JL Wade CM Walker JA Waters PD Webber C 《Nature》2007,447(7141):167-177
We report a high-quality draft of the genome sequence of the grey, short-tailed opossum (Monodelphis domestica). As the first metatherian ('marsupial') species to be sequenced, the opossum provides a unique perspective on the organization and evolution of mammalian genomes. Distinctive features of the opossum chromosomes provide support for recent theories about genome evolution and function, including a strong influence of biased gene conversion on nucleotide sequence composition, and a relationship between chromosomal characteristics and X chromosome inactivation. Comparison of opossum and eutherian genomes also reveals a sharp difference in evolutionary innovation between protein-coding and non-coding functional elements. True innovation in protein-coding genes seems to be relatively rare, with lineage-specific differences being largely due to diversification and rapid turnover in gene families involved in environmental interactions. In contrast, about 20% of eutherian conserved non-coding elements (CNEs) are recent inventions that postdate the divergence of Eutheria and Metatheria. A substantial proportion of these eutherian-specific CNEs arose from sequence inserted by transposable elements, pointing to transposons as a major creative force in the evolution of mammalian gene regulation. 相似文献
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Jones FC Grabherr MG Chan YF Russell P Mauceli E Johnson J Swofford R Pirun M Zody MC White S Birney E Searle S Schmutz J Grimwood J Dickson MC Myers RM Miller CT Summers BR Knecht AK Brady SD Zhang H Pollen AA Howes T Amemiya C;Broad Institute Genome Sequencing Platform & Whole Genome Assembly Team Baldwin J Bloom T Jaffe DB Nicol R Wilkinson J Lander ES Di Palma F Lindblad-Toh K Kingsley DM 《Nature》2012,484(7392):55-61
Marine stickleback fish have colonized and adapted to thousands of streams and lakes formed since the last ice age, providing an exceptional opportunity to characterize genomic mechanisms underlying repeated ecological adaptation in nature. Here we develop a high-quality reference genome assembly for threespine sticklebacks. By sequencing the genomes of twenty additional individuals from a global set of marine and freshwater populations, we identify a genome-wide set of loci that are consistently associated with marine-freshwater divergence. Our results indicate that reuse of globally shared standing genetic variation, including chromosomal inversions, has an important role in repeated evolution of distinct marine and freshwater sticklebacks, and in the maintenance of divergent ecotypes during early stages of reproductive isolation. Both coding and regulatory changes occur in the set of loci underlying marine-freshwater evolution, but regulatory changes appear to predominate in this well known example of repeated adaptive evolution in nature. 相似文献
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Imaging plate illuminates many fields 总被引:24,自引:0,他引:24
The erasable phosphor imaging plate developed for medical radiography has found new uses in the laboratory. X-ray diffraction, protein crystallography and autoradiography have all benefited from this technology transfer from the clinic. 相似文献
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Cloning of the essential myotonic dystrophy region and mapping of the putative defect. 总被引:56,自引:0,他引:56
C Aslanidis G Jansen C Amemiya G Shutler M Mahadevan C Tsilfidis C Chen J Alleman N G Wormskamp M Vooijs 《Nature》1992,355(6360):548-551
Myotonic dystrophy is a common dominant disorder (global incidence of 1:8,000) with variable onset and a protean nature of symptoms mainly involving progressive muscle wasting, myotonia and cataracts. To define the molecular defect, we have cloned the essential region of chromosome 19q13.3, including proximal and distal markers in a 700-kilobase contig formed by overlapping cosmids and yeast artificial chromosomes (YACs). The central part of the contig bridges an area of about 350 kilobases between two new flanking crossover borders. This segment has been extensively characterized through the isolation of five YAC clones and the subsequent subcloning in cosmids from which a detailed EcoRI, HindIII, MluI and NotI restriction map has been derived. Two genomic probes and two homologous complementary DNA probes were isolated using the cosmids. These probes are all situated within approximately 10 kilobases of genomic DNA and detect an unstable genomic segment in myotonic dystrophy patients. The length variation in this segment shows similarities to the instability seen at the fragile X locus. The physical map location and the genetic characteristics of the length polymorphism is compatible with a direct role in the pathogenesis of myotonic dystrophy. 相似文献
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