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Colonies were grown overnight at 37°C on Luria Broth (LB) agar plates containing carbanocillin, X-gal (5-bromo 4-chloro 3-indoyl-β-D-galactopyranoside) and isopropyl-β-D-thio-galactopyranoside for blue/white colony screening.
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.
Where whaling and piracy were once important industries, the colony now looked to the less exciting but more predictable earnings from tourism, insurance, and banking enterprises.
That herethe essence of a colony's defencewas the substance of the quarrel with its purpose:
Single bacterial colonies from the plasmid library were picked from agar trays into 384-well plates containing media, kanamycin, and 7% glycerol using a Q-bot robotic colony picker (Genetix, Christchurch, UK).