An image analysis script in MATLAB (R2012a) was developed to track and measure maximum basal plate diameter (rostro-carinal) for each barnacle at four time points (after 2, 4, 6, and 9 weeks). Only barnacles that remained alive at the end of the experiment were included in the ...
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50 mm F1.8 Macro lens). To avoid overcrowding, excess barnacles were removed from panels during the first two weeks, and subsequently whenever barnacles came in contact with each other. At the end of the experiment 5 - 96 barnacles remained on each panel (mean 43 ± 15 (SD)). The ...
Genomic DNA was extracted using DNeasy PowerSoil isolation kits (Qiagen, Valencia, CA, USA) following the manufacturer’s instructions using an automated homogenizer (1600 MiniG Automated Tissue Homogenizer and Cell Lyser, SPEX SamplePrep, Metuchen, NJ, USA) and a robotic workstation for DNA ...
based on intensive 2416 national meteorological stations by the "anomaly approach" [53–55], in which a gridded climatology of 1971–2000 is first obtained by thin-plate smoothing splines, and then a gridded daily anomaly derived via an angular weighting method is added to the climatology [56...
(Piscataway, NJ, USA). Melittin was purified from Biomolecules 2018, 8, 19 13 of 17 honey bee venom (>70% purity) and was provided by Sigma Aldrich (St. Louis, MO, USA). The peptide concentrations were determined by absorbance at 280 nm, using the extinction coefficient provided by the...
Please note that in this analytical solution we assume no coupling between the vibration modes along x and y directions; however, due to the asymmetric shape of the blade and its plate-like form, these crossing terms are expected to be smoothed out. Figure 5. The fluctuation of the natural...