Are these marine invertebrate-a cnidarian?

Please see the photo. From tropical rocky intertidal habitat. Width of the image is around 60 cm

31 December 2014 3,384 17 View

Can you help with designing higher taxa-specific primers using Primer Blast?

I am trying to design a primer pair for rbcL that could specifically amplify bryophytes using primer BLAST, but I'm confused. If I enter sequence/GenBank Accession of one template, for...

08 September 2014 8,986 3 View

Cladistics Vs. Phylogenetics What is the difference?

As I understand, cladistics is one subset of phylogenetic methods (other being phenetic). That would essentially mean "cladograms" and "phylograms based on cladistics" such as ML/MP/BI are exactly...

05 June 2014 8,584 9 View

Is there any standard assay to check anti-metastatic activity (Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition, EMT) of an extract?

Like MTT and MTS for Cell viability (cytotoxicity). This paper (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0068808) discusses the following: 1. Wound healing migration...

02 March 2014 8,580 6 View

Can someone suggest a good plagiarism detection software?

Paid or free, I am looking for the best software for detecting textual plagiarism. Can someone please suggest?

02 March 2014 3,850 13 View

Can you take TDS as a proxy for ocean salinity?

My digital salinometer is dysfunctional and I'm planning for a field trip soon. I have a functional TDS meter that shows TDS in PPM with .001 accuracy. I could guess a linear relationship of TDS...

31 December 2013 8,505 19 View

Collaborators from all around India for large-scale phylogeography study

I am seeking collaborators from all around India for large scale DNA Sequence-based phylogeography studies targeted at various plant species. Anyone can be part of this study, no prior knowledge...

31 December 2013 4,331 0 View

Can someone please identify this marine benthic invertebrate (worm?)

From Car Nicobar islands, photographed last week. Retracts upon touching. Polychaete?

31 December 2013 4,173 19 View

Could someone help me to decide whether these cytogenetic observations indicate any genotoxicity?

Onion root-tips bathed in suspected water for 48 hours, what was observed appeared to be dense abnormal prophase (B) as well as dense metaphase (A), also abnormal.

09 October 2013 7,425 18 View

What is the best way to add scale bars to multiple microphotographs simultaneously (batch-processing)?

I've been using Adobe Illustrator and ImageJ but adding scale bars individually to images is quite a tedious job especially if you have a lot of images. I would like to add a standard scale bar to...

09 October 2013 5,988 7 View

What are the countries most affected by extreme rainfall as a result of climate change?

Increased heat, drought and insect outbreaks, all associated to climate change, have increased wildfires. Decreasing water supplies, declined agricultural yields, health impacts in cities owing to...

01 March 2021 7,168 9 View

How to accurately quantify chitin?

Hi all, I have been working on the quantification of chitin in insect samples and feed for a while but I can notice that the quantification methods (e.g. exposure to HCl, NaOH, and weighing sample...

01 March 2021 1,843 2 View

Genome-wide gene identification protocol ?

Is there any book chapter/book, webpage or research article available to understand genome-wide gene identification?

28 February 2021 8,095 1 View

How to improve and implement WBAN MAC and Radio modules under Castalia 3.2 ?

Hello researchers, Hello Castalia3.2 researchers I am a beginner with Castalia, I work on optimization of RFID systems used in wireless body networks. I simulated a WBAN with 10 nodes and one...

28 February 2021 400 1 View

I want to performe MALDI-TOF MS for bacterial identification, I would appreciate it if anyone can tell me the matrix solution preparation protocol ?

based on what I've studied on multiple papers, for peptide and protein identification Alpha-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (CHCA) is an appropriate matrix to use, I also know that the CHCA powder...

26 February 2021 6,799 3 View

Can anyone help with Schistosoma identification?

Can anyone identify what kind of Schistosome species this might be? Morphological features of cercariae and adults resemble Trichobilharzia, though I am fairly new to the field of parasitology...

25 February 2021 7,760 6 View

I have need of XRD graph analysis software for phase identification. Can you please provide links for software tools which can be downloaded?

i am trying to download x'pert high score software, but can't download it. please do suggest software for phase analysis

24 February 2021 5,687 4 View

Please help in identification of this insect?

This insect is minute in size around 1 mm and not clearly visible with naked eye.

22 February 2021 5,907 11 View

Purification of proteins from baculovirus-infected insect cells?

18 February 2021 6,665 6 View

What are the available keys and descriptions for the identification of lice and fleas in domesticated animals?

I am an undergraduate student at the University of Peradeniya Sri Lanka, currently working on ecto-parasites in domesticated animals. I found difficulties in the identification due to a lack of a...

15 February 2021 277 1 View