In the past four years, these companies have sold nearly one-fifth of the land in the Northern Forest to financial investors and other timber companies, and to a much lesser extent, conservation groups, according to the institute's statistics.
In case all the amoCAB genes are included as molecular markers for AOB in environmental samples, amoC and amoA (being the most conserved) could be recommended for studying less closely related species, whereas amoB, due to its lesser sequence conservation, could be a better molecular marker to resolve closely related species.
The Antiquities Act was a Republican accomplishment -- sponsored by Republican Congressman John F. Lacey of Iowa, one of America's lesser-known conservation heroes, and passed by a Republican Congress.
To a lesser extent, the conservation of synteny is also striking with L. japonicus and soybean.
Furthermore, it seems that H2A.Z-2 promotershowow a lesser degree of conservation across the mammalian species studied, as indicated by the lack of the positional consensus in the elements identified (see Additional files 1 and 2).
All other microorganisms listed in Table 3 feature a lesser degree of conservation to biogas community members and hence are more distantly related to them (exemplarily see Figure 5B,C).
Although it has lesser degree of sequence conservation than TATA-box, Y-Patch elements occur in correct upstream context in more than 50% of annotated rice genes, either in combination with or independent of TATA-box.
When compared to protein-coding genes, antisense transcripts show a lesser degree of expression conservation.
Conservation planning on the global scale has the potential to confer greater benefits and impose lesser costs on nature than conservation planning on finer scales, if the costs and benefits of agriculture are also addressed (Dobrovolski et al., 2014), and therefore, the global scale could be an ideal starting point for conservation planning in agricultural landscapes.
