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Mosaic Organism

Known as: Mosaic, mosaicism 
An individual containing two or more populations of genetically different cells that arose from a single zygote.
National Institutes of Health

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Review
2009
Review
2009
Natural selection in action during speciation
The role of natural selection in speciation, first described by Darwin, has finally been widely accepted. Yet, the nature and… 
Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Application of the fire–grazing interaction to restore a shifting mosaic on tallgrass prairie
Summary 1. Management of rangelands has long operated under the paradigm of minimizing spatially discrete disturbances, often… 
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Overexpression of polyphenol oxidase in transgenic tomato plants results in enhanced bacterial disease resistance
Abstract. Polyphenol oxidases (PPOs; EC 1.10.3.2 or EC 1.14.18.1) catalyzing the oxygen-dependent oxidation of phenols to… 
Highly Cited
1997
Highly Cited
1997
Evidence that DNA-A of a geminivirus associated with severe cassava mosaic disease in Uganda has arisen by interspecific recombination.
Geminivirus isolates associated with the epidemic of severe cassava mosaic disease in Uganda were studied and compared with virus… 
Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Efficient promoter cassettes for enhanced expression of foreign genes in dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous plants.
A series of chimeric promoters for higher-level expression of foreign genes in plants was constructed as fusions of a gene for… 
Highly Cited
1993
Highly Cited
1993
La autoantigen enhances and corrects aberrant translation of poliovirus RNA in reticulocyte lysate
Translation initiation on poliovirus RNA occurs by internal binding of ribosomes to a sequence within the 5' untranslated region… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Engineering Herbicide Tolerance in Transgenic Plants
The herbicide glyphosate is a potent inhibitor of the enzyme 5-enolpyruvylshikimate- 3-phosphate (EPSP) synthase in higher plants… 
Highly Cited
1985
Highly Cited
1985
The mosaic genome of warm-blooded vertebrates.
Most of the nuclear genome of warm-blooded vertebrates is a mosaic of very long (much greater than 200 kilobases) DNA segments… 
Highly Cited
1981
Highly Cited
1981
Mosaic distribution of opiate receptors, parafascicular projections and acetylcholinesterase in rat striatum
Although cell-stained sections have suggested heterogeneity in the neostriatum1, more conclusive evidence has come from selective… 
Highly Cited
1957
Highly Cited
1957
Degradation of tobacco mosaic virus with acetic acid.
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