Maria Giovanna Lupo

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Why is it better to have sex-regulating genes on sex chromosomes rather than on autosomes?

Sex is determined by genes carried by sex chromosomes (XY or ZW systems), or by environmental cues, especially temperature. Regarding those species that rely on highly specialized chromosomes to...

12 July 2016 3,916 2 View

Can anyone suggest me if there are online bioiformatics tools that can help me in finding short motifs in a protein sequence?

I have to know if in my protein there is a specific short motif (3aa), how many times it occurs and in which positions. Does anyone know if it exists any online tool that allow me to perform this...

01 June 2016 9,274 3 View

How could I count the number of chromosomes in a SAM file using perl?

How can Perl understand to count the chromosomes in a SAM file and how long is each chromosome once I opened and read the file?

20 May 2014 8,391 1 View

Are there in-depth studies on non-genetic heterogeneity in eukaryotes?

I'm very interested in understanding what non-genetic heterogeneity is and what the main causes that trigger it are. I know there are a lot of studies on this phenomenon in bacterial clonal...

22 April 2014 3,102 5 View

Can anyone help me with Mate-pair and scaffolding

What do you mean with mate-pairs? How can I use mate-pair to scaffold contigs? Is this the only method to scaffold or are there any others methods?

25 March 2014 3,964 1 View