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pombe his5 +PCR amplification/ transformation method was used [ 62 ] . Correct integrants were verified by PCR using primers that amplified a DNA fragment that spanned the recombination junction.
The third microsyntenic region (MSR3) was located on Arabidopsis chromosome 2 and spanned Arabidopsis BACs F26H11 (AC006263) and F7O24 (AC007142).
cDNA prepared from 0.5 μg RNA was subjected to PCR using murine gene-specific primers for 8 different cytokines and chemokines (Table 1) as previously detailed [ 18 ] . All of the primer pairs spanned at least one intron in the corresponding genomic DNA.
If the BLASTN alignment spanned at least 240 nucleotides, and the percentage identity in the BLASTN comparison exceeded that for the corresponding segment of the TBLASTX comparison by more than 10%, this was taken as evidence that the protein potentially encoded by the novel sequence was under less selective pressure than is seen for known EPK family members, and is therefore probably a pseudogene or sequencing artifact.
The river in front of us thundered over the road where just the day before a wooden bridge had spanned it.