We organized datasets as adjacency matrices of animals and plants, A×P, with bat species as A rows and plant species as P columns, to test for the network structure of bat-fruit interactions (Appendix S2).
More advanced techniques for the extraction of steroids hormones from matrices of animal origin have been reported; however, these techniques are far less common than the classical techniques previously described.
The lack of full-length amelogenin in the developing enamel matrix of affected animals suggested therefore that the observed bio-mineralization defects could be due to (i) failure to express full-length amelogenin containing the Y64H mutation; (ii) impaired secretion of Y64H amelogenin or (iii) an unusually high extracellular degradation rate for amelogenins carrying this mutation.
The basic linear mixed model notation was: y = X b + Z a + e where y = vector of phenotypes (TKC, EPG or weight traits), b = vector of fixed effects included in the model, as described previously, X = incidence matrix for fixed effects, a = vector of random animal effects, Z = incidence matrix of random animal effects and e = random residual effects.
Implants made from naturally-derived biomaterials, also called biological meshes or biomeshes, typically derive from decellularized extracellular matrix of either animal or human tissue.
Heparan sulfate (HS) proteoglycans at cell surfaces and in the extracellular matrix of most animal tissues are essential in development and homeostasis, and variously implicated in disease processes.
HA is an essential component of the extracellular matrix of all animal tissues and is an abundant component of this matrix.
Multiple studies, including ours, have demonstrated the possibility of using the extracellular matrix (ECM) of animal organs as platform for tissue engineering and more recently, discarded human organs have also been proposed as scaffold source.
To do so, we placed transgenic animals onto fresh agar plates and recorded short movies (<1 min) and compared the movement (curvature matrices) of transgenic animals to the parental unc-70 s1502); unc-70 s1502ts (Hamutantsd et al., 2007) and to wild-type animals.
