Strength of mortality factors varies with plant productivity, the rate of production of plant biomass. For very simple systems, where few plants exist, not enough plant material is available to support herbivores, and plants must be resource limited, that is, limited by competition.

 

  

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As the origins are hemimethylated they bind to the cell membrane and may be unavailable to methylases. 

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The dat locus contains DnaA-binding sites that titrate availability of DnaA protein.

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Hda protein is recruited to the replication origin to convert DnaA-ATP to DnaA-ADP.

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Replication in bacteria and in eukaryotes is licensed and permitted to occur only once per cell cycle.

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The E. coli oriC is fully methylated at the beginning of replication.

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oriC is hemimethylated and remains in that condition for approximately 13 minutes.