Under his leadership the society also acquired and expanded the nation's first poison control center for animals.
John Pott, for whom the city was named, acquired and expanded the iron works shortly after his arrival in 1806 and laid out the town in 1816.
After the company's great success in 1999 with Pokémon, Wizards of the Coast acquired and expanded "The Game Keeper," a US chain of retail gaming stores, eventually changing its name to "Wizards of the Coast", including the company's flagship gaming center on the Ave in Seattle for several years, and its retail stores, which were mostly in shopping malls in the US.
The cerebral cortex has acquired or expanded a variety of specific features during evolution of the primate lineage.
Myc may have acquired an expanded role in regulating the cell cycle and energy metabolism later in evolution through affecting the expression of genes involved in glucose metabolism and mitochondrial biogenesis.
Shifts in newly acquired or expanded OTUs concern mainly commensal organisms that are in general more predominantly present in the oropharynx than in the nasopharynx (28, 29 ).
These studies present an opportunity to compare the regulation and function of por gene families that have been acquired and expanded in patterns unique to each of various algal taxa.
Six B. vulgaris MYB proteins, Bv_uksi, Bv_josh, Bv_cfqe Bv_ijmc, Bv_swwi and Bv_pgya did not cluster in any of the identified clades or subgroups or showed ambiguous placements between the different phylogenetic trees, implying that these BvMYB proteins may have specialised roles that were acquired or expanded in B. vulgaris during the process of genome evolution.
And this month, Red Hat acquired Sistina Software, expanding its share of the Linux software market.
An additional six to 10 C-17s being acquired to expand the air force's strategic lift capability will also make the force the world's second largest operator of these aircraft after the US air force.
