From extrapolations of body size made from excavated vertebrae (individual sections of the backbone), paleontologists have estimated that the body length of the average adult Titanoboa was roughly 13 metres (42.7 feet) and the average weight about 1,135 kg (1.25 tons).
The Conk-S1 structure comprises a twisted double loop backbone, held by disulphide links between the C-terminal helical section and both the N-terminal (C7-C57) and the middle C32-C533) sectiof of the peptide backbone (Bayrhuber et al, 2005).
Working with python embryos, they used fluorescing antibodies to track the expression of two genes, members of the HOX gene family, which helps shape sections of the developing backbone.
For the randomly-mixed library, equimolar concentrations of multiple oligonucleotide fragments for each region were ligated in the presence of the backbone vector (see the final section below).
Its mountain backbone is the Umbrian-Marchigian section of the Apennines, rising to 8,130 feet (2,478 metres) at Monte Vettore.
The results indicate that the cross-section of a backbone chain with smaller oligosaccharide side-chains is obliged to expand more than that with longer side-chains.
However, Blunt and Brookes had gelled as a rhythm section and would form the backbone of every subsequent line-up of The Charlatans.
In aqueous solution, this 140-residue protein adopts a dynamically disordered backbone conformation, but its Cα chemical shifts also have been interpreted as being indicative of a slight propensity to adopt α-helical torsion angles for several sections of its backbone.
We thus took serial z-stack images (every 0.5 μm throughout 50-μm-thick brain sections) and manually traced the backbone of the cells throughout the z-stack images with the FIJI software (Schindelin et al., 2012) and the Simple Neurite Tracer plug-in (Longair et al., 2011), as described in Experimental procedures.
The wing section is shorter than the backbone.
