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Mycobacteria are Gram-positive, acid-fast, pleomorphic, non-motile rods belonging to the order Actinomycetales.
The Dutch St. Nicholas was an ambivalent figure: He was lean and solemn, and he gave bad children birch rods.
We found that photoreceptor-specific genes typically showing high, retina-specific expression that began around one week after birth, coinciding exactly with the previously reported increase in expression of rhodopsin and other rod-specific genes [ 13 14 15 ] . We typically saw higher expression of photoreceptor-specific genes in microSAGE libraries made from microdissected outer nuclear layer (97% rods versus 70% rods for whole retina) and, in many cases, higher expression in P10.
In agreement with this finding, circadian regulation of wheel running by light was previously reported in mice lacking rods and cones [ 70 ] . Interestingly, the IOP of strain CBA/CaJ, which has one of the highest daytime IOPs does not appear to increase in the dark.
Not long ago a newspaper column (in the New Orleans Times-Picayune ) about fishing rods contained the following sentence: "Nothing has been overhyped more in recent years than the value of ball bearings in reel construction."