"preliminary clue" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used to refer to a hint or indication which suggests something that may be true, but needs to be confirmed or explored further. For example, "The preliminary clue suggests that there may be a connection between the two events."
The right combination of microbes, it seems, can tip the balance between stunting and healthy growth, even when calories are scarce a tantalizing, if preliminary, clue to possible interventions.
To obtain a preliminary clue about the regulatory function and the molecular mechanism of OsCNGC genes in transcriptional regulation, potential cis-acting regulatory elements in upstream (1000 bp) sequences of the CNGC genes were analyzed.
A preliminary clue indicating that this might be the correct hypothesis was obtained by comparing the levels of expression induced by piggyBac vectors containing the rightward or leftward heterologous genes with those induced by precursor (pCRBluntII-TOPO) plasmids containing the same genes outside the context of piggyBac (Fig. 8).
Thousands of hours of sleuthing, testing and analysis are only now offering preliminary clues.
The inspection here is expected to be completed within 28 days, but the robots may be able to offer some preliminary clues, perhaps as early as next week, as to what went awry.
Homing in on the neurons in this way furnishes important preliminary clues about how the brain directs courtship and mating, says neurogeneticist Jeffrey Hall of Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Meanwhile, they provide preliminary clues for experimentalists.
These predictions can serve as putative annotations and should provide preliminary clues for experimentalists.
Having demonstrated that the incomplete PTS of B. melitensis is functional and knowing that PTS-dependent regulations are mediated either by allosteric interaction or by direct phosphorylation of target proteins [1], we performed a Y2H screen to detect interaction partners of the EIIAMan-like protein and NPr of B. melitensis 16M to get some preliminary clues about the functional role of this PTS.
Preliminary clues pointing to the role of TOSV in CNS infections in Italy were provided by reports of imported cases diagnosed in the United States (10 ) and Germany (11 ).
Nevertheless, the sequence information and genomic features of LSGs can provide some preliminary clues about the possible functions and evolution models of LSGs.
