The swab tip was clipped with disinfected scissors, placed in 10 mL Trypton soy broth (TSB) tubes containing 4% NaCl, 1% mannitol, 16 mg/L phenol red and cefoxitin 1 mg/L (Sigma-Aldrich, Steinheim, Germany) + aztreonam 50 mg/L (Bergman Labora, Danderyd, Sweden) and incubated overnight at 37°C.
Remove the sharp tip below the quick (away from the toe), clipping about halfway between the end of the quick and the tip of claw.
Young ducks -- whose beak tips are clipped to prevent them from pecking each other, Mr. Gonzalez said -- roam freely, first in a large barn, then outside in a chestnut orchard.
Toe tips were clipped from R. omeimontis (which is evaluated as least concern on the IUCN red list of threatened species, http://www.iucnredlist.org/) to provide the tissue specimens.
They caught 115 lizards and gave each an individual "barcode" by clipping the tips of their toes in a unique pattern (a commonly used method for marking small animals).
Throughout the day new hatchlings were uniquely marked, by clipping the very tip of one or two toenails in a specific combination, and returned to their nest of origin within 2 h of hatching.
Hatchlings were uniquely marked by clipping the very tip of one or two toenails in a specific combination, and a small blood sample (ca. 10 μl) was collected from the nestlings within 6 days of hatching.
To force the plants to concentrate on ripening what's there instead of growing more, start by clipping off the tips of all vines and branches.
IQGAP1 is an adaptor protein that localizes to the cell cortex, where it can link the MT plus ends to cortical actin by binding actin and the MT tip protein CLIP 170 (Fukata et al., 2002; Watanabe et al., 2004; Brown and Sacks, 2006).
