Sentence examples for clones were less from inspiring English sources

Background levels of empty clones were less than 10%.

First, we show for the first time that the effects of multiple infections by parasite clones could be different than those previously reported for isolates, because P. ramosa clones were less virulent yet produced more transmission stages than P. ramosa isolates.

Finally, the most abundant OTU in Wulai soils, acidobacterial GP1-affiliated OTU, with 23 clones, was less abundant in Huoshaoliao, Lienhuachi, and absent in Yuanyang Lake forest soils (Table 5).

Background of empty clones was less than 2%.

This observation suggests that these two clones are less frequently involved in allelic exchange with other strains.

Our evolved clones are less fit than their ancestor on high glucose (Table 1).

However, complete spatial separation of aphid clones is less frequently observed above ground [ 38, 39], probably because these aphids can more easily move around.

Fosmid clones are less expensive to generate than BACs and are well known to have less cloning bias and a more narrowly controlled insert size (Kim et al. 1992).

Long-term treatment with APR-246 applies a selection pressure for loss of mutant p53 expression, but because of the important role of TrxR1 in biosynthesis, the emergence of combined TrxR1/p53-deficient cell clones is less likely.

We also discarded SNPs for which the mean intensity in RH clones was less than 3000 on the Y axis or less than 1500 on the X axis, because we lacked the discrimination power to distinguish clones that retained the SNP and clones that did not.

Ex-Facebook Intern Yan supports D'Angelo's estimates in the thread and implies that, because of how much Facebook open sources, the actual number of engineers needed to make a functional clone is less than 250 (to which D'Angelo replies correctly, yes, but Facebook doesn't really spend that much time open-sourcing).