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3a), but colony size measurement is a newer assay and not yet so widely used [ 7, 11, 12].
Vexed by discord, the founding families find a convenient scapegoat in a colony of single women that springs up at a ruined Catholic home for Indian girls 15 miles away.
After Parliament in London abolished slavery in 1833, there was a transitional apprenticeship period of 5 years before all slaves in the colony became fully free on 1 August 1838.
The mice used in this study were first described in 1995 [ 31 ] . Disruption of the first coding exon with a promterless β-galactosidase/neomycin resistance fusion cassette [ 33 ] created a null allele for Lifr . AB1 ES cells, on a129S7/SvEvBrd- Hprt b - m 2background, were used for targeting Lifr . The mice were sent to the Induced Mutant Resource of the Jackson Laboratory in 1994, from where one heterozygous ( Lifr +/-) male was received in 1997 to re-establish the colony at the University of Washington.
Two ~150-bp deletions (Δ16-18 and Δ19-21) have even more severe effects, reducing both transformation frequency and colony size to the levels of the enhancerless core, within experimental error (Fig.