From owner-celegans@net.bio.net Thu Sep 29 23:00:00 1994 Path: biosci!CGL.UCSF.EDU!hunter From: hunter@CGL.UCSF.EDU (Craig Hunter) Newsgroups: bionet.celegans Subject: seeing worms Date: 29 Sep 1994 19:49:11 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 7 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <199409300249.TAA17753@socrates.ucsf.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net I am looking for a convenient procedure to make L1 larvae easily visible in a drop of water on a plate. I am thinking mostly about vital dyes (nile blue?) modified coli or variations on transmitted illumination. The worms must survive. Any ideas? Tested or untested (and crazy is OK too). Craig Hunter (hunter@cgl.ucsf.edu) .