Examples of 'wild-type' in a sentence

Meaning of "wild-type"

wild-type (noun): a term used in genetics and biology to refer to the most common, naturally occurring form of a species, organism, or gene. It is often used in contrast to mutant or genetically altered variations. An example would be 'Researchers compared the mutant strain to the wild-type for analysis.'
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These may be wild-type or derivative sequences.
The sequence may be synthetic or wild-type.
Wild-type enzyme controls are shown as well.
Cholesterol in wild-type and standard eggs.
Wild-type a and a cells are not autocrine.
A indicates identity to wild-type at that position.
Results were compared with those of wild-type.
Wild-type virus in infected herds is efficiently reduced.
Nutrients pass through wild-type porins in mycobacteria.
The wild-type strain is not inhibited by uracil.
Poliomyelitis caused by wild-type poliovirus.
No cases of wild-type polio virus have been reported.
Nitrogenase activity is reported as a percentage of wild-type activity.
Wild-type mice were also included in the protocol.
Mutants are compared to wild-type at each temperature indicated.

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Wild-type strains are especially preferred in some embodiments.
Both groups remained significantly below wild-type.
Wild-type alanine racemase was purified as described above.
The genome may be either wild-type or mutant.
The wild-type calreticulin gene is well known.
No binding was observed in wild-type cells.
Wild-type residues were not so predominant at other positions.
Relative to that associated with a wild-type bacteriophage.
The wild-type hGR is represented at the top.
A similar composition containing wild-type rFVIIa is prepared.
Wild-type as employed herein refers to a known adenovirus.
Pancreatic duct ligation was performed in wild-type mice.
Wild-type parents of these mutants were less effective in control.
No immunoreactive bands were detected in the wild-type cells.
Said plant may be a wild-type plant or a transgenic plant.
This was never possible by plating wild-type cells.
Analysis of wild-type and variant polysaccharide product fingerprints.
This results in a homogeneous monolayer in wild-type cells.
A wild-type vaccinia virus plaque was used as a negative control.
Such helper viruses can be wild-type or mutant.
Stability of wild-type eggs compared to that of standard eggs.
This difference was seen in both strains of wild-type mice.
It is preferred that the wild-type osp gene be preserved.
The wild-type strain produces no xylanase in rich medium.
Through the immunoblot of wild-type protein on mutant proteinFIG.
Wild-type maize cells were transformed and plants regenerated.
Cholesterol content in wild-type eggs compared to standard eggs.
An additional negative control could also be wild-type mice.
Lysozyme content in wild-type eggs compared to standard eggs.
The periplasmic volume was uniformly compressed in comparison to wild-type.
The cell may be a wild-type cell or a recombinant cell.
Quinabactin confers drought stress tolerance to wild-type plants.
The enzymes can be wild-type enzymes or variant enzymes.
A compound to be tested is mixed with the wild-type bacterium.
Structures of wild-type AraC and LexA are shown on top.

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