Talk:Conserved sequence

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[edit] Move to Wiktionary?

I would suggest no move, because IMO this entry is likely to be a valuable object for collecting links to from other articles.

With time, "what links here" may become increasingly interesting. At the same time, the article could be usefully expanded, by addressing eg the questions "what kind of sequences tend to be strongly conserved?" and "just how conserved are they?". -- Jheald 09:40, 12 February 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Merged talk page of Conservation (genetics)

(The talk page of the merged article consists solely of wikiproject headers and one comment, so I'm merging the comment below):

[edit] what

what should we do with conservation should we keep it or get rid of it?

Comment: I think that conservation is absolutely an important concept and should be kept. I use Wikipedia as a source for nursing science, which increasingly addresses genetic topics, and I'm happy to see more and more issues of cell biology appearing here. I know that the degree of conservation in a sequence is an important indicator of the significance it's had--I imagine that as more information about specific proteins comes onto wikipedia, an article on genetic conservation would be a useful "hub." The articles on conservation (genetics) and conserved sequences probably ought to be merged, because the materials on these pages seem to compliment each other. My favorite title for it would be "genetic conservation."--Paul bryner 07:20, 1 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] End merged talk page

[edit] Merge of Conservation (genetics) into Conserved sequence

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section. A summary of the conclusions reached follows.
The result was merge into Conserved sequence. -- Formerly the IP-Address 24.22.227.53 (talk) 13:54, 7 February 2009 (UTC)


I think Conservation (genetics) and Conserved sequence should be merged into a single article since genetic conservaton is in fact conservation of DNA or RNA sequences (or protein sequences coded by DNA/RNA sequences). My inclination is to have the name of the merged article be Conserved sequence (with Conservation (genetics) turning into a redirect to it). The term conserved sequence is encountered more often, although genetic conservation (or conservation (genetics)) might be seen as more formal or something. Other opinions about such a merge? -R. S. Shaw 20:12, 3 November 2007 (UTC)

I would agree with that, they really are the same article. However, I'd say the main article ought to be conservation (genetics) because what the article really discusses is the concept of genetic conservation, rather than specific conserved sequences or the definition of the term. -Bobsagat 11:41, 7 November 2007 (EST)

When I write articles, I'm more likely to talk about "conserved sequences" or "sequence conservation". The more I think about it, the more I think it's a question of scope. "Conservation" (genetics) could refer to not only sequence conservation, but also conservation of function, conservation of regulatory pathways, etc. It closely overlaps with topics like Negative selection and Stabilizing selection. The fact that the the top of Conservation (genetics) says "This article is not about conservation genetics" also suggests that the article title could be misinterpreted. I guess there could be room for both Conserved sequence and Conservation (genetics), but I'd rather see Conserved sequence kept if only one stays. Forluvoft 20:32, 7 November 2007 (UTC)

I concur with the three previous editor's comments. The two articles should be merged. I do not have a strong opinion on the name of the new article. N2e (talk) 12:46, 18 June 2008 (UTC)


I'm in the process of merging the two articles. Conservation (genetics) will be kept as a disambiguation page. --Formerly the IP-Address 24.22.227.53 (talk) 13:54, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

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