Type III collagen, known to control diameter of the fibres, was less down-regulated than type I collagen.
However, when the log-ratios of ribosomal protein transcripts with significant expression changes (n = 15; Additional file 6) were compared between biofilm and planktonic cells in different growth phases, there was less down-expression for biofilm cells compared to stationary-phase cells.
She adds: "I'm less down on how it sounds now," citing both the fact that "raw analog sounds are back in fashion" and her desire to see her compositional techniques grappled with by critics and composers.
And the cuisine is less down-home; the tostadas have been replaced by fancier dishes like salmon with chutney and coconut tiger shrimp.
In comparison to their expression in wt embryos, these two genes were highly down-regulated in mibta52 followed by those in mibm132 and then mibtfi91, which are less down-regulated.
The similarities between the two are less down to a failure of imagination than an excess of emulation.
Jessica Punter thinks this is less down to male insecurity than it is about new standards of beauty.
This is less down to UK government policy than a reluctance among seed companies to apply for the relevant permits, given the high-profile backlash in Britain against GM food a decade or so ago.
If de Blasio loves to wax poetic on economic issues, he's less down to talk about weed.
But it was less bogged down by literary fidelity, perhaps because Dante's "Inferno" yields no conversational tone.
