Publications by authors named "Yui Iwata"
Background: Cardiac regeneration in the adult mouse is not substantial. Some vertebrates, such as newts and zebrafish, regenerate the heart throughout their lives. To understand how regenerative abilities differ among animal species, comparative research has been conducted in animals like mouse, zebrafish, and newt.
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- Scientists studied two similar genes, six6.L and six6.S, in a type of frog called Xenopus laevis to see how they changed after the frog's genes duplicated.
- They found that the six6.L gene was more active in the eyes than the six6.S gene, which had changes that made it less effective.
- Their research helps explain how one gene copy can lose its function and become a pseudogene, which is just a 'forgotten' version of the original gene.