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In this case, there's a good reason to buy American: Most Asian fleece has been napped, but it hasn't been combed or sheared.
As he coughed up his sources he sheared the sharper edges off his story.
Total M. paratuberculosis genomic DNA was isolated and randomly sheared using a nebulizer and compressed nitrogen according to protocols developed by Bruce Roe's laboratory http://www.genome.ou.edu.
Libraries were prepared according to the double adaptor method [ 39] with the following modifications: DNA was sheared using the Hydroshear (Gene Machines, San Carlos, CA) at speed code 2 for 25 cycles.
The largest clone overlapping all positive hits was sheared and subcloned into 3-kb plasmids, and sequenced using methods described in [ 9].