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Therefore, the lack of an obvious phenotype at d12 may reflect patchy AR deletion and the fact that the remaining AR-positive PTM cells are sufficient to enable normal early testis development; this theory requires further investigation.

Such events may reflect the "patchy" repair of mismatches within a heteroduplex (St. Charles et al. 2012) or multiple repair events.

Multiple transitions within conversion tracts could reflect "patchy" repair of mismatches within long heteroduplexes (discussed further below) or template switching between homologs.

This difference between island and mainland situations may reflect population dynamics in patchy or metapopulation landscapes.

Interestingly, the expression of CD20 on the T cells appears rather patchy and may reflect cross-linking of anti-CD20 to CD20, which has been observed to result in CD20 translocating to lipid rafts [ 13].

This may reflect variability and perhaps the patchy nature of central corneal nerve damage in advanced neuropathy, which has been shown recently in a small whole corneal nerve mapping study in a diabetic patient with severe neuropathy (25).

However, the March bank Fe2+ (Fig. 2) and July flat FeSaq profiles (Fig. 8) show patchier profiles which may reflect microbial or chemical niches.

In addition, the patchy distribution of Ty1' and Ty102 may reflect the fact that they encounter variable levels of success, possibly depending on the background of the strain.

Alternatively, infection in the dog population may have been local and patchy, and the apparent temporal differences in prevalence may reflect geographic sampling bias.

On MRI, affected muscles showed several patterns including diffused or patchy high signals and high signals surrounding the muscles, which may reflect inflammatory oedema (figures 1 and 3).

This may reflect their embarrassment.