Dear Polychaete lovers,
For safety and health reasons, formaldehyde (formol) will be soon
prohibited (at least in Europe .. I'm not sure for other countries).
That might be problematic for specimen preservation since, as many of
you I guess, I used to fix collected polychaetes from benthic samples in
formaldehyde. I just learned that RCL2 might be of great interest to
substitute for formol. Does anyone already experience this surrogate
formol or does anyone has any information to share with me, as far as
fixation quality of tissues for IDs (I'm not talking of doing any
molecular analysis), preservation of pigments etc....
Thanks for your inputs.
Stan.
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Stanislas DUBOIS (PhD)
Laboratoire DYNECO / Ecologie Benthique
IFREMER - French Research Institut for Exploitation of the Sea
Technopole de Brest-Iroise
B.P. 70 - 29280 Plouzané - FRANCE
Tel: (33) 02 98 22 49 18
Fax: (33) 02 98 22 45 48
email: sdubois from ifremer.fr
