How long can the hemolymph be stored for carbohydrate, Protein and TAG analysis?

An animal in not a rock (e.g., Koch 2013), it has an internal constitution that can be modified?

Vertebrates and invertebrates (e.g., arthropods: insects, crustaceans, etc.) have two different neuro-muscular systems given their differential construction: the former have an endoskeleton and...

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Immune competency study in shrimp (white leg shrimp). What are the parameters to access immune competency in shrimp? Am i to use hemolymph or hepato?

Going futher, i am runing a nutrition experiment using black soldier fly meal (BSFM) and polychaete meal (PM) as a replacement for fishmeal targeting maturation in Litopenaeus vannamei. This is...

11 May 2024 3,985 0 View

Hello, our metabarcoding PCRs work fine in 96-well but not in 384 well-plates. Did anyone experience this problem as well?

We are working with aquatic DNA samples and 7 different regions amplifying invertebrates, plants and vertebrates. We optimized our reactions in 96-well plates which worked well but now we do the...

09 May 2024 3,459 0 View

Does the afro-electric fish (Gnasthenomus petersii) support consciousness?

In terms of communication, Gnasthenomus petersii has been compared to songbirds, bats, elephants, dolphins, whales, as well as humans. On this point, Chomsky (2012) believes that the ability to...

27 April 2024 1,098 0 View

Alternative of NaI in DNA Extraction from serum?

I am trying to extract DNA from serum. I found an article that claimed simple extraction can be done in a single tube - Simple procedure of DNA isolation from human serum Here they used a...

30 March 2024 2,470 2 View

I found this in the haemolymph of Mytilus edulis, what is it?

Hi! When I extracted haemolymph from the adductor muscle I saw this in the microscope at 20x magnification. Does anyone know what it is? It looks like a see-through bag and something came out of...

27 February 2024 6,890 1 View

How can estimate glycogen in the body?

glycogen in serum

19 February 2024 1,592 1 View

Do fishes have all the neural components to support consciousness?

See the attached figure below (from Zacks and Jablonka 2023). Notice that ‘sensory’ is segregated from ‘motor’ (except at the midbrain) just as it is for humans; in short, no sensory (and no...

04 February 2024 769 29 View

Who was the originator of the equilibrium-point hypothesis: AG Feldman or E Bizzi?

In 1974, AG Feldman published on the equilibrium-point idea in Biofizika (Feldman, A.G., 1974. Change of muscle length due to shift of the equilibrium point of the muscle-load system. Biofizika,...

04 February 2024 5,358 1 View

What are the pathways supporting consciousness in humans?

You will understand the figure immediately after reading the caption of figure 2 of Zeng, Weidner et al. (2023); the pathways cover declarative/procedural memory consolidation (hippocampus),...

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