…NCBI—http:// www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/; Protist EST Program—http:// amoebidia.bcm.umontreal.ca/pepdb/), were searched for PCD-related sequences [in particular, the ‘‘domains of death’’ described and used in previous comparative analyses (Aravind et al. 1999, 2001; Koonin and Aravind 2002)].
Sample text:```1996) and then to the effector enzyme, namely phospholipase C-b 2 (PLC-b 2) (Adler et al. 2000).```
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Sample text:```We screened for potential TF binding sites using STAMP [59], with the motifs’ position weight matrices (PWMs) retrieved from the TRANSFAC database [60].```
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Sample text:```Methods for extraction, amplification and sequencing of the nuclear 5.8S rRNA gene and the two flanking, ITS regions were as previously published (Ganley et al., 2004; Shipunov et al., 2008).```
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Sample text:```Similar results were obtained for several other plant species in previous studies (peanut, common bean, chestnut, black gram) (Raina et al. 2001; Marotti et al. 2007; Goulao et al. 2001, Souframanien and Gopalakrishna 2004).```
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Sample text:```This is interesting in relation to the result from our previous CGH study (comparing the number of significantly hybridizing probes on the microarray) that showed high sequence divergence on the Z chromosome between the common whitethroat and the zebra finch [62]; and such patterns are also found in other species [48,51,69].```
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Sample text:```Our results confi rm previous studies that reached the same conclusion (Boushey et al 1994; Vermeulen et al 2000; Till et al 2005; Marcucci et al 2005).```
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Sample text:```We screened for potential TF binding sites using STAMP [59], with the motifs’ position weight matrices (PWMs) retrieved from the TRANSFAC database [60].```
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Sample text:```It was shown that cathepsins are also present in other insects, e.g. Helicoverpa armigera (Yang et al., 2006) and Bombyx mori (Gui et al., 2006; Lee et al., 2009) and are involved in programmed cell death during metamorphosis.```
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Sample text:```Because previous studies indicated that hexapeptides bind the junction core (29, 32), we tested two junctions, one with an AT-rich core and the other with a GC-rich core (Fig.```
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Sample text:```These results are in line with morphological abnormalities in a rabbit model of pneumococcal meningitis [8, 47], in neonatal and adult rat models [7, 51] and in human autopsy cases [20].```
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Sample text:```Methods for extraction, amplification and sequencing of the nuclear 5.8S rRNA gene and the two flanking, ITS regions were as previously published (Ganley et al., 2004; Shipunov et al., 2008).```
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Sample text:```Our results confi rm previous studies that reached the same conclusion (Boushey et al 1994; Vermeulen et al 2000; Till et al 2005; Marcucci et al 2005).```
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Sample text:```This is interesting in relation to the result from our previous CGH study (comparing the number of significantly hybridizing probes on the microarray) that showed high sequence divergence on the Z chromosome between the common whitethroat and the zebra finch [62]; and such patterns are also found in other species [48,51,69].```
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Sample text:```Unlabeled DNA substrates containing consensus 12-RSS, 23-RSS, Hox11 or non-specific DNA sequences (DAR81/82) were prepared from oligonucleotides described previously [11,24].```
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Sample text:```…have been found that possess IQ motif/s: the IQD family that contains a IQ67 domain (Abel et al. 2005; Levy et al. 2005), the myosin family (Knight and Kendrick 1993; Reddy and Day 2001; Holweg and Nick 2004; Ojangu et al. 2007), the CaMbinding transcriptional activators (CAMTA) family…```
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Sample text:```7C) that may correspond to the centrosomal katanin previously observed after nocodazole-mediated disruption of the spindle pole (McNally and Thomas, 1998).```
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