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Allen Walker Read, whose distinguished career now spans seven decades, contributed solid yet always thoroughly enjoyable papers, and in addition has given us the handy phrase “place-name cover” to describe how place names indeed blanket the country with richness, color, and texture.
To ease the transition, I thought it might be fitting to pay tribute to someone whose career spans these two worlds.
This protected region spans only the wild-type dmsA DNA sequences but not the adjacent foreign DNA sequences.
Rhizobia have the ability to transfer genes horizontally to other bacteria, and M. loti carries a 'symbiosis island' which spans approximately 9% of its genome and has been shown to have a role in rhizobial evolution via HGT [ 46 ] . This symbiosis island contains certain genes involved in nodulation and nitrogen-fixation functions, but none of these is a homolog of the nematode HGT candidates we have identified.
Completed in 1890, the bridge comprises three huge cantilevers joined by two suspended spans, for a total length of 1,447 m (4,746 ft).