Day 6 sampling for all, and 4 more Friday Harbor stars from the exposed side have dropped arms! Also, lots of water flow and temperature issues… details in post.
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MUSP Day 1 through 5 Update
Today marks day 5 of the multi-species experiment. We’ve done one time-series sampling day (Day 3). We also had some disease sign sampling (Day 5), and added in a little extra sampling for Melanie’s pathogen discovery work. Details on sampling scheme plan and other observations in the post.
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Start Multi-Species (MUSP) Experiment!!
Today, we started the multi-species experiment! Very exciting! Details in post below.
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Notes and Preparation for Multi-Species Experiment
Likely to start soon!!! Waiting for the adult that has been exposed to another wasting adult to show signs of twisting, then the coelomic fluid from that star will be used to inject into the Friday Harbor stars (raw for exposed, and heat-killed for control), and then the Friday Harbor...
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Start Co-housing Multispecies - No disease exposure yet
Today we co-housed the three species that will be part of our multi-species experiment.
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