I am planing to perform FISH in activate sludge samples and I am wondering if someone has worked with FISH from frozen samples prior to the fixation step. I mean, sample ---> storage (-20) ---> defrost --> fixation + FISH PROCEDURE.
As I can read for your comment, samples were frozen, then defrosted and fixed. Were the samples used immediately after for FISH? I'm not sure if samples can be storage at -20 after fixation for a while if they were already defrosted for fixation. If you could recommend me any reference about I'd be thankful.