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06 July 2016 1,654 4 View

Is it possible to transport/send seabass ovocytes before in vitro fertilisation ?

For the purpose of some experiments, I would need seabass (Dicentrarchus labrax) striped ovocytes to be mailed (express mail overnight delivery) before performing an in vitro fertilisation. Do you...

10 November 2012 2,636 2 View

How to infer statistical significance in time series data? Survival, growth, spawning...

In ecotoxicology experiments, we often have to monitor continuous process or events over time. * Survival: starting with x individuals and finishing at the end of the test with y individuals...

08 September 2012 8,804 16 View

Binary Logistic Generalized Linear Mixed model in SPSS. Is it doable?

I want to analyses the proportion of swimming sperm of three species of fish in two salinities. To analyse the proportion of swimming sperm in a Generalized Linear Model, I would use a Binary...

03 March 2021 2,297 3 View

Can someone suggest a way to prepare slides to observe under confocal microscope for observing fluorescent tagged proteins??

I am growing the cells on coverslips and transfecting the fluorescent tagged protein directly on them. Then i want to observe these cells under confocal microscope. Currently i am just using...

01 March 2021 6,142 3 View

Good morning research fellows, Has anyone worked with senna alata plant extract on any kind of fish?

Literatures on the piscicidal effect of sennaa alata is scanty. if you have any related litrature either in the bark, leaves or roots used as treatment to any aquatic organism please kindly help...

28 February 2021 9,138 2 View

Will a 10xHis-tag prevent anti-MBP from binding to MBP?

I have a protein with a 10xHis-MBP tag on the N-terminus. I'm fairly certain I am expressing my protein, but I'm not getting a signal on my western blot. Is there a possibility that the 10xHis tag...

25 February 2021 8,404 3 View

Experimental Design: How deal with pseudreplicates with immunological and clinical-chemical paramaeters?

Hello everybody, I am investigating the influence of a toxinon various clinical-chemical and haematological parameters in fish. I have three treatments (control, low dose, high dose) in my...

24 February 2021 1,243 1 View

Hi i want to ask that in order to find out LC 50 (96 hours) of particular toxin for fish. Should we keep the animals with food or without food?

if we expose the fish after acclimatization to particular toxin in order to find out LC 50 (96 hours).Should we keep the fish off feed or with feed for that duration. Some literature show that...

24 February 2021 357 2 View

How to minimise the risk of being abused the profile of potential participants tagged in a social media post?

Dear colleagues, I got this one in one project I did ethics review. It's great to hear about your thoughts/experiences. "Doing an open recruitment online (i.e., via Facebook) requires public...

22 February 2021 3,322 3 View

Measuring Total immunoglobulin whole-body of fish larvae?

Hi Dear All, I prepared the extract of fish larvae whole body with PBS. Then protein concentration of the whole-body extraction samples determined by the Folin-Ceiocalteu-Phenol method (Lowry...

17 February 2021 1,971 3 View

Unable to detect a truncated protein variant, but I can observe a truncated cDNA from Sanger?

Hi, so basically... I am trying to mimic a clinically observed condition wherein a frame-shift mutation happens only at one allele of the patients, giving rise to a truncated variant which evades...

17 February 2021 1,130 6 View

Choice of Ab for Co-IP: Does an anti-(tag) antibody (such as anti-flag/ anti-myc) a must if I am using co-transfected cells for Co-IP?

Hi guys, I am trying to detect the binding of 2 proteins by Co-immunoprecipitation. However, the choice of antibody is confusing me. I tried probing the endogenous protein right away but the...

16 February 2021 9,050 5 View