Cynthia O'Rourke

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Does anyone in the U.S. have live Gryllus pennsylvanicus field crickets that they would be willing to sell to us for an instructional lab?

Hello! We'd like for our introductory biology students to study aggressive interactions in crickets later on in this semester, but of course all of the commonly sold feeder crickets are...

08 August 2018 3,253 1 View

Best introductory biology lab manual?

For those of you who teach an introductory biology course spanning genetic through ecosystems biology, what is your preferred lab manual, and why? Thank you, Cynthia

05 May 2018 8,292 0 View

Are highly cross-adsorbed antibodies worth the extra cost?

We're running a number of multi-labeling fluorescent IHC projects in our lab, and we're having trouble with bleed-through and/or non-specific labeling by the secondaries. I'm considering bumping...

08 August 2014 8,487 10 View

How difficult is it to work with an organism listed as endangered by the U.S. FWS?

What variables most contribute to the paperwork challenges of conducting field observations, catch-and-release sampling, and limited collections of a species that is threatened primarily by...

09 September 2013 4,058 9 View