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As long as the owner retains the inhouse capabilities to operate as a smart buyer of facilities, there does not appear to be any greater risk from contracting out a broad range of design reviewrelated functions, so long as such functions are widely available from a competitive commercial marketplace.
C73 contains at least three copies of a T-DNA comprising the 35S:GFP-COP1 gene as well as a kanamycin resistance gene driven by the nopaline synthase promoter ( nos:nptII ). The C73 locus is silenced transcriptionally (TGS) but retains partial expression of both nptII and GFP-COP1 . GFP-COP1 remains expressed in the seedling root but is largely silenced in the shoot.
The insert size for this library is as expected using the Stratagene Hybrid-Zap kit, given that the size-selection column retains DNA molecules larger than 200 bp) (Stratagene technical support, personal communication).
Though Lagos town still retains a good part of its original walls — most of them from the 16th century, but part-Roman in places — they have been rebuilt and expanded over the centuries.
It will be noted, that the grouping of the numbers differs from country to country: the US retains xxx-xxxx, presumably as a hangover from the old days of telephone name-calling; in Britain, the (older) five-digit and the (newer) six-digit numbers are written solid: xxxxx(x); on the Continent, six-digit numbers are written in sets of two: xx-xx-xx.