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The third microsyntenic region (MSR3) was located on Arabidopsis chromosome 2 and spanned Arabidopsis BACs F26H11 (AC006263) and F7O24 (AC007142).
Our assay investigated tissues that spanned most of this period (see Methods), including four time points in the critical period surrounding P10 to P18 (P10, P12, P14 and P18).
Apparently, some rescue workers took an adjacent elevator to the place where the man and woman were stuck, took out the side panels that separated the two elevator cars, then asked them to make a tightrope walk across a narrow beam that spanned the shaft between the two elevators, as if these two poor knee-knocking souls were suddenly the second coming of Karl Wallenda.
A sequence scaffold is defined as a set of contiguous sequence contigs, ordered and oriented with respect to one another; within a scaffold, the gaps between adjacent contigs are of known size and are spanned by clones [ 1].
Two are real gaps with no overlapping clones and the other four are spanned by few clones that have either unusually long inserts or are missing some of the markers in the interval, or both.