As they describe in Biology Letters, they analyzed samples of scute — the hard substance that protects the turtles' bony shells.
In 2003, he analyzed samples of Siberian permafrost on a hunch that he might find ancient DNA — an experiment he said bemused and amused his colleagues.
His laboratory analyzed samples of freeze-dried açaí pulp using the Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity assay scale, which measures the antioxidant properties of foods.
James Haile and Eske Willerslev of the University of Copenhagen and colleagues analyzed samples taken from the frozen soil at various depths, corresponding to about 8,000 to 11,000 years ago.
When Dr. Keim, working for federal authorities, analyzed samples of the attack germs, all turned out to belong to the Ames strain, named after Ames, Iowa, where the bacterium was thought to have arisen.
The researchers, from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, the University of Maryland and Old Dominion University, analyzed samples of ballast water from ships arriving in the Chesapeake Bay from foreign ports.
Descriptions of the analyzed samples are given in Table 1.
The total number of analyzed samples was 30.
Fig. 2 XRD patterns of the analyzed samples.
Statistical parameters of analyzed samples are shown in Table 1.
Moreover, carryover was not observed in the analyzed samples.
