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In all, aside from the dictionaries, Jeans lists twenty-eight books plus fifteen of Patrick O'Brian's novels; no mention is made of the Mariner's Mirror , the journal of the Society of Nautical Research, or of other essential source materials.
On the mound, the Mariner's Big Unit, 6'-10" Randy Johnson, the tallest man ever to play in the majors, and the most proficient strikeout pitcher in history.
But there are genuine regionalism lurking in both the written and the spoken language: corinna (an Aboriginal name for the Tasmanian tiger), mariner (a corruption of the Aboriginal merrina for a seashell used as a physical ornament), quoib (an Aboriginal term for a wombat), and wing-wang (again an Aboriginal term, this time for a fiery piece of lighted bark thrown by Aborigines).
To verify the genetic propinquity of the sexual and asexual planarian strains, we analyzed mariner element sequences from the asexual and the sexual specimens.
Several DNA sequences similar to the mariner element have been reported in G. tigrina [ 10 16 ] . There are about 7000 copies of this element in the genome, which appear to code for an active transposase [ 10 ] . None of these mariner elements are present in the genomes of other turbellarians, including the species closest to G. tigrina [ 10 ] . With the aid of PCR using specific primers for the planarian mariner element, we isolated and sequenced several clones from sexual and asexual planaria.