I am doing a syudy on microplast in freshwater and I need a simpel yet effectiv way to dissolve the exoskeleton of the invertebrates I catch without damaging the microplastic
They compared a number of approaches (KOH, ProteinaseK ...)
Rist, S., Baun, A., Hartmann, N.B., 2017. Ingestion of micro- and nanoplastics in Daphnia magna – Quantification of body burdens and assessment of feeding rates and reproduction. Environmental Pollution 228, 398–407. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2017.05.048
Always depends on your microplastic if it works without changing them
Christoph Schür that sounds like an easy way to solve my problem, thank you
Potassium hydroxide works slowly and is used by many entomologists to clear specimens; dissolving the pigments from thicker sclerites so that the animal is intact but you can visualize gut contents.
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