Can anyone help with a signal on the blot without primary antibody?

I have been using ECL mix to detect the optimum primary antibody concentrations for a western blot and found out that even without the primary antibody I get bands though they are quiet light. The...

15 April 2014 2,127 3 View

Has anyone used PRB1-3 antibody from Santa Cruz (sc-169028)?

I use PRB1-3 antibody from Santa Cruz and I am afraid it might not work well. The reason why I think this is that I get the same band pattern after the incubation with primary and secondary...

26 March 2014 9,944 2 View

How deep into the sediment do marine/riverine oligochaetes live?

I am working with intertidal muddy sediments. In one of my sites the sediment was extremely muddy (high % of silt), oxic layer was shallow, and there were a lot of oligochaetes. I would like to...

14 January 2021 7,269 4 View

Is there any chemical safe for sea environment, but could be used for repelling planktons and microorganisms?

As an example of Julia Child, whose first receipe was shark repelent, my team and I are looking for some chemicals which wont harm planktons but will help keep planktons from our robot in sea.

20 December 2020 9,616 4 View

Any Book or Article on Pleistocene Planktonic Foraminifera and Calcareous Nannoplankton?

Dear all, I am working on the biostratigraphy of Pleistocene sediments from the high latitude region in south-east Indian ocean sediments. Kindly suggest me any book or articles in which the...

09 September 2020 1,544 9 View

What will we do if foraminifera can used for applied ecological forensics?

We know that Forensic ecology can be used by applied microfossil proxy, called palynology. What do you think and if there is some papers that explain how can investigate the forensic ecology by...

23 July 2020 9,406 1 View

How can we make dendrogram and identify the biofacies of benthic foraminifera community using any software like PAST or SAS etc?

I want to make a dendrogram and identify the biofacies from my benthic faunal data (relative abundance of different species in different depths). Right now I am having the software PAST and SAS....

09 October 2019 5,723 3 View

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07 August 2019 9,140 4 View

Has anyone used a Dino-lite microscope to image a foram?

I'm interested in the quality of the image. If so, can you share your images? Alternatively, do you have a relatively inexpensive setup (less than $5k) to image forams (including software) and...

02 March 2019 6,132 4 View

Can someone identify these nemerta?

Hello, I found high abundances of these ribbon worms ( nemerta ) in my samples from a marina in Brittany (France) and I would like to put a species name on these considering their abundance. I...

11 December 2018 5,852 4 View

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11 December 2018 9,100 0 View

Which is the standard procedure of limestone and foraminifera sample preparation for stable isotope analysis?

In the future, we will be trying to perform oxygen and carbon stable isotope analysis on algal-bryozoan reefal limestone samples and foraminifera collected from it. We have an IRMS at our...

10 November 2018 5,676 5 View