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A greater number of genes within a given family in Anopheles compared to Drosophila can be a result of gene expansion in Anopheles or, alternatively, gene loss in Drosophila . I considered the likelihood of either possibility for these cases, based on the trees that were constructed using neighbor-joining, parsimony, and maximum-likelihood algorithms.
An article credits grass-roots movements with selling the Czech public on NATO expansion.
The expansion in services has been welcome.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the sharp expansion in the market for initial public offerings and secondary stock offerings has made it essential that brokerage houses have analysts who are well respected in their field.
The shortage of frataxin does not result from formation of mutant proteins, but rather from expansion of a GAA repeat in the first intron of the frataxin gene.