restreak

present singular third person restreaks · participle present restreaking · participle past restreaked · past restreaked

1. biologyTo repeat a streaking procedure

   The cells were restreaked on minimal medium.

   2000 July 14, B. B. Magee, P. T. Magee, “Induction of Mating in Candida albicans by Construction of MTLa and MTLalpha Strains”, in Science, volume 289, number 5477, →DOI, pages 310–313

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   Colonies of a single tetrad were restreaked onto rich medium and incubated […].

   1998 May 1, Serge Gravel et al., “Yeast Ku as a Regulator of Chromosomal DNA End Structure”, in Science, volume 280, number 5364, →DOI, pages 741–744

   With GR and GR 526, all transformants yielded blue colonies and gave rise only to blue colonies on restreaking.

   2000 January 28, Liming Li, Susan Lindquist, “Creating a Protein-Based Element of Inheritance”, in Science, volume 287, number 5453, →DOI, pages 661–664

plural restreaks

1. biologyA repeat streaking procedure

   Cells […] did not senesce after five successive restreaks at 23°C (23 ).

   1998 May 1, Serge Gravel et al., “Yeast Ku as a Regulator of Chromosomal DNA End Structure”, in Science, volume 280, number 5364, →DOI, pages 741–744

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   These phenotypes diminished during successive restreaks; after ~75 generations, the colony and cell morphology appeared to be wild type[…].

   2001 May 11, Peter Baumann, Thomas R. Cech, “Pot1, the Putative Telomere End-Binding Protein in Fission Yeast and Humans”, in Science, volume 292, number 5519, →DOI, pages 1171–1175