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I am planning to extract and Quantify protein and lipid content from damselflies, can anyone suggests some protocol for that. TIA
03 March 2018 8,838 5 View
I want to study the diversity of insect associated with plants, and focus on fruit/seed-feeding (-infesting) insects in forests. Here I want to ask how to sample fruit/seed-feeding insects? Any...
28 February 2018 3,803 4 View
in many insect including Lepidoptera, there are two kind of sperm: Eupyrene and Apyrene. how can we distinguish two kind of sperm in pictures?
19 February 2018 7,689 4 View
Generally insects like whiteflies collected for DNA extraction are stored in ethanol. Does ethanol act as a preservant. Does it help in maintaining the integrity of the insect DNA. How long till...
18 February 2018 543 2 View
The genome of the insect I work on was genotyped, can I get advantage out of that?
15 February 2018 1,102 3 View
I currently have a number of projects on-going (insect larvae, decapods, limpets) and I would like to get one for my group.
13 February 2018 2,946 3 View
sequence amino acids for insect
09 February 2018 5,066 3 View
We use simple UV lamp (UV-C) to irradiate an insect. Is there any other source we can use? How to control the radiation dose? Please mention the source of UV-B.
05 February 2018 1,201 3 View
I carried out an experiment related to impact of alternating temperature on growth of Helicoverpa armigera insect under growth chamber by changing the temperature after 14 and 10 hrs. Whether...
02 February 2018 7,189 2 View
I am working on my Tesis, and I need papers related with morphology and morphometry of cockroaches or any related insect (opthopteroids).
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My team is doing DNA extraction from the cells of T. molitor, and for a part of the extraction I need to get the concentration of the cells to 20-30 cells/uL. We’re trying to calculate the...
24 January 2018 5,421 2 View
Can you use the Radio isotopic labeling method to study the mode of action of the pesticide in the insect?
19 January 2018 5,101 4 View
My research is on Shot-hole borer (Euwallacea fornicatus) in Tea. It's a scolytid beetle and it has a size of 2 mm. Can anyone recommend a company to buy olfactometer to study this insect...
18 January 2018 2,600 3 View
I am going to sample small insects in the field for 24h and identify and extract the RNA of them. There are problems for either method: 1) I could not keep all the insects alive, there are always...
01 January 2018 4,425 4 View
The mealworm "Alphitobius diaperinus" is a very coleopterous insect frequent in poultry farms. It can have direct adverse effects on birds through the transmission of pathogenic microorganisms !
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How to study the mode of action of the pesticide in the body of the insect?
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Can you suggest me " how to isolate some organisms which can lyse insect larvae other than B.thuringiensis and B.sphearicus ?
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