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Greece was invaded by Nazi Germany in April 1941; by June the Germans controlled the entire country, with Italian forces placed in Athens.
While the first complete 16S rRNA sequence was determined for E. coli in 1978 [ 14 ] , the first covariation-based structure models were not predicted until more 16S rRNA sequences were determined [ 15 16 17 ] . The first 23S rRNA sequence was determined for E. coli in 1980 [ 18 ] ; the first covariation-based structure models were predicted the following year, once a few more complete 23S rRNA sequences were determined [ 19 20 21 ] . Both of these comparative structure models were improved as the number of sequences with different patterns of variation increased and the covariation algorithms were able to resolve different types and extents of covariation (see below).
A conservative mining approach was used to minimize over-counting because of inclusion of splice variants, pseudogenes and sequencing artifacts.
This was accomplished by combining a few biophores into a single molecule.
But perhaps it is just as well that we have A Midsummer Night's Dream (1600), not A Midsommer nights dream , as it originally was when first published, and Henry the Fifth (or Henry V ) (1600), not Henry the fift . A later title, but still with “olde-worlde” spelling, is Izaak Walton's The Compleat Angler (1653), which oddly enough, seems to present little problem.