Jacobina
Americannoun
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By the researchers’ estimates, somewhere from 5% to 60% of the mosquito population carried DNA from the Oxitec strain in its genome at different points in the study and in different Jacobina neighborhoods.
From Science Magazine ● Oct. 1, 2019
To see whether the survivors fared well enough in the wild to spread their DNA, he contacted Oxitec’s collaborators on the eve of a large field trial in the Brazilian city of Jacobina.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 17, 2019
Alone in a desolate plantation house, Jacobina, a sub-lieutenant in the National Guard, finds his reflection growing dimmer and less distinct.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 1, 2013
Once when Martin relayed a prying reporter's request to interview the whole family at home, Jacobina objected, "But mother, I wasn't brought up in that manner."
From Time Magazine Archive
The first speaker was Anne Jacobina Woodford, who had recently come with her mother, the widow of a brave naval officer, to live with her uncle, the Prebendary then in residence.
From A Reputed Changeling Or Three Seventh Years Two Centuries Ago by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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