DPX for permanent slides...?

Does anyone use DPX to prepare permanent slides of arthropods, for taxonomy or any similar use? What protocol? Any suggestion for small crustaceans?

04 May 2018 8,177 0 View

New papers on Scopus... when?

Does anybody knows how long does it takes between the publication of a new paper (online, in the journal webpage...) and its appearance on Scopus? Thanks for your kind reply, G. Montesanto

01 February 2018 4,697 24 View

Can anyone suggest me some articles on vibrational communication in larval stages?

Maybe in Insects... what about Crustaceans? Thanks so much for your kind reply.

03 April 2017 4,827 3 View

Does anyone use DELTA for species descriptions?

Is it possible to use DELTA to automatize the work of species description?

31 December 2015 6,431 4 View

What is the Impact Factor of the journal "Subterranean Biology"?

The journal "SUBTERRANEAN BIOLOGY" is edited by PENSOFT. Does anyone knows the impact factor of this journal in 2014 or in 2015? Thanks so much for your reply. GM

10 November 2015 4,631 2 View

Does anyone can suggest me a website with a good statistical decision tree?

... in order to select the right kind of analysis. Thanks!

09 October 2015 1,268 11 View

What is the signification of the presence of a sound apparatus in a larval stage?

It is a stridulatory apparatus which sound has never been heard in the larval stages. On the other hand the sound is audible on the adults. Does anyone has a biological idea or explanation of this...

08 September 2015 3,035 10 View

Does anybody use the software package DELTA (DEscription Language for TAxonomy)?

I'd like to start using it... any suggestion?

31 December 2013 3,703 18 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

Isolates of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus?

Dear Dr. Cai, my name is Simone Prospero and I work in the team of Phytopathology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL;...

01 March 2021 1,133 1 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

Is there a method of determining feed digestibility without the need to re-pellet the feed?

I am aiming to determine the ADC values of a commercial fish feed, but I do not have a steam pelleter or extruder available to me. Ideally, the pellets could be coated with some inert marker....

28 February 2021 7,967 3 View

Can Ethovision store the generated data and video recordings directly to NAS system?

The size of data generated by Ethovision is huge. Having NAS system for data storage seems to be a good option, I am wondering whether Ethovision can directly store the data to the NAS system...

27 February 2021 6,350 2 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

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

How we can measure Kemp % in wool without using of benzene?

Would you please let me to know about the methods for measurement of medullation and Kemp % on animal? My problem is that the wool sampling and sending to laboratory is not possible. So I would...

21 February 2021 7,260 4 View

Purification of proteins from baculovirus-infected insect cells?

18 February 2021 6,665 6 View

Do I need to introduce HFD to ob/ob mice to obtain a T2DM model?

I am planning to work on T2 diabetic animals and check the efficacy of probiotics. My initial plan is to fed B6 animals with HFD for a while. But now, I have the chance to work on ob/ob mice. My...

18 February 2021 6,896 3 View