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I agree with Wilson's comments almost entirely, but he fails to criticize severely enough those who say i.e. and e.g. (rather than confine their use solely to writing), and, in general, he seems to avoid condemning poor style; also, the pronunciation system he employs may be a little crude for this sort of book, being derived from the Moo Goo Gai Pan school of phonetics.
If all else fails, they could hit the DWIM key.
In other words arginine fails to functionally substitute for lysine even when it is present on only one subunit of the dimer.
Starting in 2008 for sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides and in 2010 for mercury, the owner or operator of a facility that fails to hold allowances covering the annual emissions of its affected units is treated as having excess emissions.
Furthermore, in all (including late anaphase) cdc5-1 cells, Cdc14 co-localized with A190, a nucleolar protein (Figure 1, Rows 3 and 6), suggesting that when CDC5 is compromised, most or all Cdc14 fails to vacate the nucleolus in late anaphase.