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• As an aside to that, it intrigues me (mildly) that whereas the French shortened automobile to auto, the Scandinavians retained the other end, producing bil for car.
The within-sites data bases became less extensive as observation times were shortened.
Heterozygous mutant mice are born with shortened tails and malformed vertebrae.
Train recalls the image of a pack-train , a string of the packhorses who carried much of Europe's freight before good roads; and the very strength of machinery has long been measured in horsepower , significantly shortened simply to horses .
..) [ 23 ] . Since these poly(A) tails themselves contain polyadenylation signals, it is possible that their assignments as poly(A) tails are false positives, and the real tail formed by polyadenylation has shortened over time and is not detectable [ 44 46 47 ] . Four of the remaining L1-TDs for which no polyadenylation signal was found appeared to result from multiple sequential transduction events; we did not have family members that align with the 3' end of the transduced sequence to determine whether the poly(A) stretch could have been encoded in DNA.