Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A homologous gene that is related to those in different organisms by descent from the DNA of a common ancestor and that may or may not have the same function.
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- noun genetics either of two or more
homologous gene sequences found in differentspecies related by linear descent
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Even if it takes longer to complete the human interactome it would be much more informative to have of map of the ortholog proteins in a sufficiently close species to compare with like mouse.
Public Rambling Pedro Beltrao 2006
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As before I created groups of H. sapiens proteins with different average age using the reciprocal best blast hit method to determine the most likely ortholog in eleven other eukaryotic species see figure 1 for species names.
Public Rambling Pedro Beltrao 2006
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Even if it takes longer to complete the human interactome it would be much more informative to have of map of the ortholog proteins in a sufficiently close species to compare with like mouse.
Archive 2006-04-01 Pedro Beltrao 2006
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Zac at ortholog.com writes about an experimental test of buying irrationality using Ebay.
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In order to create groups of S. cerevisiae proteins with different average age I used the reciprocal best blast hit method to determine the most likely ortholog in eleven other yeast species see figure 1 for species names.
Public Rambling Pedro Beltrao 2006
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As before I created groups of H. sapiens proteins with different average age using the reciprocal best blast hit method to determine the most likely ortholog in eleven other eukaryotic species see figure 1 for species names.
Archive 2006-07-01 Pedro Beltrao 2006
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In order to create groups of S. cerevisiae proteins with different average age I used the reciprocal best blast hit method to determine the most likely ortholog in eleven other yeast species see figure 1 for species names.
Archive 2006-07-01 Pedro Beltrao 2006
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Zac at ortholog.com writes about an experimental test of buying irrationality using Ebay.
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Chickens have ovocleidin, but geese have an ortholog, ansocalcin, and ostriches have struthiocleidin.
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Drosophila ortholog of mammalian "Heterochromatin Protein 1", to target genes for dSETDB1.
Elites TV 2010
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The term "ortholog" was coined in 1970 by the molecular evolutionist Walter Fitch.[5]
Sequence homology Contributors to Wikimedia projects 2022
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Orthologs, or orthologous genes, are genes in different species that originated by vertical descent from a single gene of the last common ancestor.
Sequence homology Contributors to Wikimedia projects 2022
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