Laboratory routines

Here you find details about the methods used in our lab. Feel free to learn from them, feel also free to tell us if you come up with something better.

• Screening Daphnia for parasites
• Preparing Daphnia medium
• Growing algae
• Counting algae and parasite spores
• Preparing parasites for further investigation (light and EM microscopy, DNA samples)
• Preparing Daphnia free of microbes and food for clean DNA isolation