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The shorter one, 2 km (1 mile) to the outstanding lookout point known as the Balcões (“balconies”), takes just 45 minutes roundtrip.
You can also head to Spinalónga from here — a much shorter trip than from Ágios Nikólaos because the island lies just offshore.
If the idea that transcription strength mainly drives Tag expression is kept as the working hypothesis, then there are at least three possibilities to explain the K1 data: 1) the K1 protein has a mildly shorter half-life and the small difference results in a different phenotype vis-à-vis the density related expression; 2) failure to bind Rb family members significantly affects the half-life during exponential growth; 3) the LTR vectors can occasionally display integration position effects that in this special case was subject to density dependent control that is different from most LTR driven cell populations.
Conformer 2 experiences a similar collapse with a somewhat shorter ring-to-ring distance derived from an alternative set of torsions along the C13 side chain (Table 1).
Table 1summarizes results in 129/Sv mice (10 males and 10 females), again demonstrating faster heart rate and shorter QRS duration and QT interval in female mice than in age-matched males.