restreak

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restreak (third-person singular simple present restreaks, present participle restreaking, simple past and past participle restreaked)

(microbiology) To repeat a streaking procedure
- 1998 May 1, Serge Gravel et al., “Yeast Ku as a Regulator of Chromosomal DNA End Structure”, in Science‎^[1], volume 280, number 5364, →DOI, pages 741–744:
  Colonies of a single tetrad were restreaked onto rich medium and incubated […] .
- 2000 January 28, Liming Li, Susan Lindquist, “Creating a Protein-Based Element of Inheritance”, in Science‎^[2], volume 287, number 5453, →DOI, pages 661–664:
  With GR and GR 526, all transformants yielded blue colonies and gave rise only to blue colonies on restreaking.
- 2000 July 14, B. B. Magee, P. T. Magee, “Induction of Mating in Candida albicans by Construction of MTLa and MTLalpha Strains”, in Science‎^[3], volume 289, number 5477, →DOI, pages 310–313:
  The cells were restreaked on minimal medium.

Noun edit

restreak (plural restreaks)

(microbiology) A repeat streaking procedure
- 1998 May 1, Serge Gravel et al., “Yeast Ku as a Regulator of Chromosomal DNA End Structure”, in Science‎^[4], volume 280, number 5364, →DOI, pages 741–744:
  Cells […] did not senesce after five successive restreaks at 23°C (23 ).
- 2001 May 11, Peter Baumann, Thomas R. Cech, “Pot1, the Putative Telomere End-Binding Protein in Fission Yeast and Humans”, in Science‎^[5], volume 292, number 5519, →DOI, pages 1171–1175:
  These phenotypes diminished during successive restreaks; after ~75 generations, the colony and cell morphology appeared to be wild type […] .

Anagrams edit

retakers, streaker