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The University of Texas researchers have scoured the literature for genes related to nicotine, and they are developing microarrays to study the expression of these genes (Figure 3).
Death Valley was an irresistible magnet for prospectors, who once scoured the hills and canyons for signs of copper, lead, gold, and silver.
Even the most drosophilophobic readers, however, will be pleased by the extent to which Coyne and Orr have conscientiously scoured the literature on nonmodel animals and plants.
The look of the apartment was the spare look of China, a place that had been scoured and simplified by chaos--upheaval, terror, mass murder, war.