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An aid to the detailed examination of salps [Tunicata: Salpidae]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

P. Foxton
P. Foxton
Affiliation:
National Institute of Oceanography, Wormley, Surrey
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Extract

A method is described for staining the musculature of preserved salps with Rose Bengale and reforming their natural shape by injecting the body cavity with molten agar. Compared with normal preserved material, specimens prepared in this way are easy to handle, more lifelike in appearance and the detailed arrangement of their musculature is clearly differentiated in three dimensions.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , October 1965 , pp. 679 - 681
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1965

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