[Histonet] Mosquito GI Tract

[Peggy Bisher]

Actually I had a project to find bacteria in the ovaries of drosophila. The
bacteria looked a lot like mitochondria and about the same size. That was a
lot of fun, but at least I got to use a TEM for the imaging. You could
barely see the sample in the dissecting microscope and it was only after I
had post fixed it with osmium tetroxide and they turned black. And they
wanted longitudinal sections too! That was fun ;-|




On 3/19/09 3:27 PM, "Jackie M O'Connor" <Jackie.O'Connor <@t> abbott.com> wrote:

> More interesting - why is someone even looking at the mosquito GI tract?
> What happens in there that we need to know about?  I guess for all the
> diseases those filthy beasts carry - they must harbor viruses and bacteria
> somewhere.   Did you know that mosquitos did not exist in Hawaii until a
> little more than 100 years ago?  Durn Westerners brought them in the
> barrels of drinking water they carried on their ships.   Welcome to
> paradise.   Oh - they also brought measles.  Thanks a lot.
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> Merced Leiker <leiker <@t> buffalo.edu>
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> lol...I wanted to say the same thing...and how in the world can you even
> see it when you section it? How do you stain it without losing it from the
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> slide? Is there really enough surface area for it to adhere and withstand
> washing? ...and it's ALMOST Friday...!
> 
> --On Thursday, March 19, 2009 12:09 PM -0600 "Breeden, Sara"
> <sbreeden <@t> nmda.nmsu.edu> wrote:
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>> And here I thought I had an unusual project today, finding out as I did
>> that my boss is thinking of examining up to 1000 cattle for TB (at 10
>> lymph nodes/beast) using AFB and asking me to cost it for him.  I think
>> the Mosquito GI Tract Processing and Embedding question has my project
>> beat!  How would you even KNOW you had the darned GI tract to begin
>> with?   Are these Texas Mosquitos?  I'm just sayin'...
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>> Sally Breeden, HT(ASCP)
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>> NM Dept. of Agriculture
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>> Veterinary Diagnostic Services
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>> PO Box 4700
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>> Albuquerque, NM  87106
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>> 505-841-2576
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