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In both instances, green fluorescent protein (GFP) expression served as a selection marker for recombinant identification and for the mMVA.HIVA.85A vaccine, the marker gene was flanked by two direct 200-nucleotide repeat sequences derived from the A26L gene to facilitate excision of the marker via in cis homologous recombination resulting in a markerless rMVA.

These variables were only available for those children whose parents also completed the questionnaire (N = 485), so parent participation served as a selection criterion for inclusion in analysis.

The green fluorescence protein (ZsGreen1), which was co-expressed in lentivirus-infected cells, served as a selection marker to indicate the successfully infected cancer cells.

We circumvented these limitations by generating a Δ put1 deletion strain in the 23344c background, which is wildtype except for the ura3 mutation that served as a selection marker for the expression plasmids.

The existence of multiple parallel loops connecting sensorimotor systems to the basal ganglia has given rise to proposals that these nuclei serve as a selection mechanism resolving competitions between the alternative actions available in a given context.

The marathon serves as a selection race for Japan's wheelchair and men marathon representatives for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.

When he isn't mourning the hiatus since Janet Jackson's last album, he also serves as a selection panelist for the Melbourne Queer Film Festival.

Because FOXM1B provides survival advantage, we believe that the fluctuating nicotine exposure in long-term tobacco users serves as a selection mechanism for oral cells with increased FOXM1B expression thereby increasing the risk of malignant transformation through subsequent genomic instability and accumulation of further oncogenic hits.

The seventh year is externally examined by the Examinations Council of Swaziland (ECOS) and these examinations serve as a selection tool for students to proceed to junior secondary education.

These observations could be explained by co-selection of mobile resistance elements or by unknown substrate(s) for the chloramphenicol-resistance determinants that serve as a selection pressure (23, 36 ).

The first contest is the most important one, because it serves as a selection tool for distinguishing the interested families (those with a progress-driven attitude) from the others.