I had 395 with the vast majority being junk. Got through them because clicking delete is faster than reading them.

We characterized the membranes after demineralization from pieces of shell from the edge of the opening.

Like other invert paleoproteomic studies, we were hindered by limited protein annotations. This study required conversion of several Conus genomes to protein databases with GeMoMa to have searchable gastropod databases.

As part of the study we also explored the mineral preservation with both scanning electron microscopy and Raman spectroscopy. We found that the membranes come from the calcite crust layer of the shells.

We detected the chitin with DART-MS not requiring addition sample preparation beyond isolating the membranes from the mineral matrix. To our knowledge, this is the oldest chitin detected by DART-MS.

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We explored teeth ranging in age from 1.5 million years to 29 million years from a variety of species including elephant relatives, rhino relatives, and hippo relatives.

Mary was a good advisor but always had struggles throughout her career both before the 2005 soft tissue paper and significantly after.

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If you’d like me to do a GeMoMa conversion and send it to you let me know which caiman genome you’d like converted and I can email the proteome to you.

I was recently asked to do so on a non-model organism project and I suggested my coauthors say that the proteomics community does not support using Westerns this way and gave them the following pubs: www.nature.com/articles/s41... and www.mcponline.org/article/S153...