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. 2014 Aug 23;15(1):285. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-285

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Sample use of ellipses in the paragraph. For the trigger “phosphorylation” in the third sentence, the author neglected to mention the theme because it can be inferred from the context: (1) the previous sentence also mentions this “BMP-6 induced phosphorylation”, but its theme has a general term “Smad”, and (2) the actual proteins “Smad1/5/8” are clearly specified in the first sentence.