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Because overtopping vegetation can affect the nutrients in the soil below, we collected samples away from overtopping vegetation [ 37 ] . We discarded the top 5 cm of soil and collected 2 to 3 kg of soil up to a depth of 20 cm.
(The only good news about the military is that it has regained secure control over its active nuclear weapons--though not over discarded nuclear material.)
Meanwhile, the best of the later work is the very simplest, made from discarded gas-station signs.
Genes whose adjusted signal intensity (average intensity minus background) were not at least twice their respective background value on both membranes were not considered genuine signals and discarded, as were those which were expressed on only one membrane.
Each masked file was sent to the blastc13 server as a query for searching the dbEST database using the BLAST algorithm [ 45 ] . Only ESTs with an identity of 93% or greater were considered; all other hits were discarded.