Artefact

... spliced variants and clone and sequence them too. But beware that PCR often creates bizarre unnatural hybrid molecules which are entirely artefact. If non of this helps, either your technique is wrong, or cut your losses and redesign your primers. I think that covers A LOT OF it!

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... spliced variants and clone and sequence them too. But beware that PCR often creates bizarre unnatural hybrid molecules which are entirely artefact. If non of this helps, either your technique is wrong, or cut your losses and redesign your primers. I think that covers it!

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... The tongue is not itching, the brain just thinks so because the signal comes along a neuron innervating the tongue. And the itch is most likely an artefact signal that is induced by the physical pressure on the damaged neurons.

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... seen in the linear vector lane, with a smear below it. Does this indicate degradation? The band is at too high a molecular weight so might be an artefact of some kind. On the other hand the insert is also running about 500 bp too high according to my linear ladder. If the gel extracted vector ...

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No effect of a parasite on reproduction in stickleback males: a laboratory artefact? Candolin U, Voigt HR. Department of Biology, University of Turku, Finland. [email protected] Experiments are often carried out in the laboratory under artificial conditions. ...

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