Statements that did not reach consensus were modified according to suggestions made by respondents.
Due to language and cultural differences, some of the items from the initial pool were deemed unsuitable and were dropped and others were modified according to suggestions from this panel of experts.
Pedigrees were modified accordingly.
Author response: Parts of the manuscript, including the title (as per Bill Martin's suggestion), have been modified to de-emphasize the claim that the debate ended in a "draw".
We thank the reviewer for the suggestion, the phrase was modified as suggested.
page 5, Title of Table 1 It is probably better to change "..for wild type and mutants Mt-trHbs O and N" to "..for wild type and mutants of Mt-trHbN and Mt-trHbO" We thank the reviewer for the suggestion; the phrase was modified as suggested.
The paper concludes with some insights into the limitations of NASA's current MMOD risk analysis code, and offers several suggestions regarding how it could be modified so that, for example, it could be used as an integral part of a probabilistic risk assessment exercise.
Therefore, these genes may evolve more freely to better suit their new role in bioremediation, which would be consistent with previous suggestions that extant enzymes can be modified for processes for which they were not originally evolved to perform [34].
The opinion of the California Supreme Court on direct review of Imbler's conviction states that "the picture was modified later, following suggestions of Costello and other witnesses," and that court presumably had before it only the trial record.
The order of the items was modified per respondent suggestions.
Furthermore, the risk assessment process itself also must be modified, and some suggestions are discussed in this article.
