Ponds, in contrast, were dominated by water beetles and water bugs and supported fewer sensitive taxa (ca. 5% of the species present).
Despite the fact that the liquid assay identified fewer sensitive strains than the agar assay (among the non-essential deletion strains) we found 84 strains that had not shown MMS-sensitivity in the agar assay.
Despite being unaffected by treatment, resistant cell populations are sometimes observed to go extinct stemming from stochasticity, and this tends to occur more at high-treatment levels, because there are fewer sensitive tumour cells to seed new (mutant) resistant cell populations.
Apart from a very few sensitive cases, the original story remains untouched.
Writing poetry may once have been the outlet for a few sensitive high school students.
With the exception of a few sensitive items like tomatoes and basil, the colder we keep our foods, the longer they stay in good shape.
EVEN the most hawkish proponents of small government tend to agree that a few sensitive areas of life, such as financial regulation, are best entrusted to bureaucrats.
Tankers, which dwarf aircraft carriers, have thick hulls designed to prevent oil spills and, when attacked, proved to have few sensitive parts where a "lucky" hit could cause serious damage.
Mr. Jones suggests that employees can close off a few sensitive galleries if the weather is particularly humid; limit crowds, which can heat up and humidify a room quickly; and ask visitors to check wet raincoats.
But Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and the national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, had time to review the findings and in a few sensitive chapters, particularly on Israel, to alter some wording, Bush administration officials said.
Except for a few sensitive files, like those that might allow the project to be erased, the machine's contents -- software, e-mails, even error messages -- are available to everyone in a hodgepodge of languages.
