Narrowing the wingless-2 mutation to a 227 kb candidate region on chicken chromosome 12. [PDF]
Wingless-2 (wg-2) is an autosomal recessive mutation in chicken that results in an embryonic lethal condition. Affected individuals exhibit a multisystem syndrome characterized by absent wings, truncated legs, and craniofacial, kidney, and feather ...
Cheng, HH +7 more
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Licensing of Instrumental Case in Hindi/Urdu Causatives
In this paper, I revisit the licensing and interpretation of instrumental case-marked nominals in Hindi/Urdu causative constructions to argue against the hypothesis that the se-marked phrase corresponds to a demoted agent.
Gillian Ramchand
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Transitivity Alternations in North Sámi
In North Sámi, verbs that form transitivity alternation pairs are always distinguished morphologically. However, even if morphology is seen as a reflex of the syntax, the syntactic structure underlying transitive and intransitive verbs in North Sámi ...
Julien Marit
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Curatives in the Old-Lithuanian Bible translations
The subject of the paper is curatives, a special type of causative verbs in Lithuanian, in the Bible translations by Johannes Bretke (1579–1590), Samuel Boguslaw Chylinski (1660), Samuel Bythner (1701), Philipp Ruhig (1727) and Juozapas Arnulfas ...
Paweł Brudzyński
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Observations of the relationship between sprite morphology and in-cloud lightning processes [PDF]
[1] During a thunderstorm on 23 July 2003, 15 sprites were captured by a LLTV camera mounted at the observatory on Pic du Midi in the French Pyrénées.
Adachi +38 more
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Epenthesis, mutation, and structure preservation in the Shona causative
In Shona (Bantu: Zimbabwe), the causative fonn of a verb is fonned in one of two ways: either with the suffix -is-/-es- or by changing the root final consonant to a corresponding coronal continuant.
Scott Myers
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Improved linkage analysis of Quantitative Trait Loci using bulk segregants unveils a novel determinant of high ethanol tolerance in yeast [PDF]
Background: Bulk segregant analysis (BSA) coupled to high throughput sequencing is a powerful method to map genomic regions related with phenotypes of interest.
Duitama, Jorge +8 more
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A cross-linguistic comparison of clausal embedding with causatives
In Italian, causatives are expressed through a periphrasis make + infinitival V. When the embedded verb is transitive, the embedded subject is generally introduced by a to/by preposition.
Paolo Lorusso, Linda Badan
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Whole genome sequencing-based mapping and candidate identification of mutations from fixed zebrafish tissue [PDF]
As forward genetic screens in zebrafish become more common, the number of mutants that cannot be identified by gross morphology or through transgenic approaches, such as many nervous system defects, has also increased.
Ackerman, Sarah D +8 more
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Non-linguistic Conditions for Causativization as a Linguistic Attractor
An attractor, in complex systems theory, is any state that is more easily or more often entered or acquired than departed or lost; attractor states therefore accumulate more members than non-attractors, other things being equal.
Johanna Nichols +2 more
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