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We estimate that reversion of the lac mutation is about one-tenth as likely as a null frameshift mutation in a typical gene.
In addition to the lac operon, a number of other synthetic and natural genetic circuits have been analyzed for robustness and evolvability.
Pigeonpea was once widely grown in China as a host for lac insects, the source of shellac.
Because the lac insect is sedentary, densities on branches can become very high.
The local farmers raise lac insects on the natural host trees and intercrop agricultural crops under the host trees as well.
However, the wax used is derived from natural sources like food-grade shellac, which comes from the secretion of a lac bug, it is pointed out.
These strains might not even use their lac gene products to metabolize lactose.
A lower intensity of mutagenesis can explain all observed revertants if each mutagenized cell has multiple copies of the lac operon.
The lac insect sucks the sap from small branches of the Kusumi tree, then secretes through its pores the lac resin.
The traditional use of rearing lac insects on the stem of the pigeonpea plant also continues.
Methods of improved control of lac parasites and of preventing the lac insect from developing as a pest on non-host species need further study.
This hard resinous coating originates from the plant sap metabolized by the lac insect.
Lac is a resinous substance produced by a female lac insect and found abundantly in the plain forests in India.
The natural coloration of lac residue is greatly influenced by the sap consumed by the lac insect and the season of the harvest.
The dry and hot valley of the Honghe River in Yunnan is the best place suitable to the growth of lac insects and the best region for high grade lac production.
Other events are correlated with the stable exploration of new niches, like the acquisition of the lac operon by E. coli or pathogenicity islands by Salmonella.
Insects such as houseflies, bedbugs, locusts, butterflies, honeybees, silkworms, lac insects etc. are well known to mankind, largely due to their economic importance.
The lac insect is found largely on banyan and juniper trees.
Also, as lac insects are cultured on host trees, promotion of lac and its culture helps in eco-system development as well as reasonably high economic returns.
Reports from Thailand indicate that the lac insect became a serious pest of fruit trees, so much so that the insects had to be controlled by chemical and bio-control methods!
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I was on my way to work for the Williamsons, missionaries, at lac qui Parle.
In the case of the lac insect, for example, the female resembles a little hemispherical scale on the twig of a tree.
There is much lac here, worth half a cruzado the frazila, and an extensive manufacture of cotton cloths.
Lac, lak, n. a dark-red transparent resin produced on the twigs of trees in the East by the lac insect, used in dyeing.
There are a good many Indians about here, says a letter from lac qui Parle.
At Sukkur Barrage, the inflow of water was three lac forty-two thousand cusecs and outflow was two lac eighty-five thousand cusecs.
In the beginning of this story I said what lac Tremblant was like.
It was located to the south and a little west of lac Vieux Desert.
Or are we to understand that lac was employed as a substitute for pitch?
There is also much lac and benzoin of two kinds, white and black.
Along the shores of Fond du Lac we descry a long-legged wader, the phalarope.
I was on my way to Fond du Lac, Wis. to get insurance on my store that had burned.
It has a plank road of 40 miles to Fond du Lac, and is noted for its lumber trade.
A treaty at Fond du Lac, 500 miles distant, and the throwing of a commissariat department through the lake, is no light task.
Why, the potager of the Villa du Lac supplies the whole of Lacville with fruit and flowers!
We reached Fond du Lac in the evening and tarried for the night.
The Fond du Lac District at this time numbered twenty charges.
Our Indian auxiliaries from Fond du Lac were here rewarded, and dismissed.
Attendees enjoyed great food at the Sugar Shack Lac Beauport where they learned the culture of maple sugar making.
Examples of common animal medicines in homeopathy are Lachesis, Tarentula, and Lac caninum.
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