Today was Day 1 of the second trial of geoduck stripspawn. We created an experimental design that takes into account both KCl dosage, and duration of the dose exposure. Overall things went pretty well (details in post), and on Wednesday, I’ll check for D-hinge development.
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Geoduck Egg Development - 3 days later
Today we took a look under the scope of the eggs in the silos from Friday’s egg development trial (Notebook post).
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Geoduck Egg Development Test at Taylor Hatchery
Today I looked into trying to figure out why we saw polar body development as early as we did last week during the first trial of KCl-dosage experiments (Day1, Day2). Details of the experiment are below, but there was egg development in the negative control (no sperm, no KCl), so...
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June Goals
I leave for FHL on June 16th for a 5-week intensive course on the Ecology of Infectious Marine Disease!! Lots to do before I go.
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Day 2 Geoduck Stripspawn Project at Taylor - not great results
Today we checked to see what development occurred since Wednesday’s strip spawn and KCl-treatment trials. There were so few eggs in the tripours to begin with, that there ended up being way too small of numbers of D-hinge larvae that I ended up dumping the trial and we’ll have to...
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