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Chapters
- 00:04Introduction
- 00:34Collection Preparation
- 01:21Field Collection
- 02:21Plating Out Field Collections and Isolating Nematodes from Collections
- 04:06Exporting S-Plates from Fulcrum
- 04:41Check for Proliferation on S-Plates
- 05:26Lysis of Isofemale Lines
- 06:22PCR of SSU and ITS2 Sequences
- 07:00Identifying Nematodes and Processing the Collection Data
- 08:04Results: Identifying Nematodes with Sanger Sequencing and Sequence BLAST
- 08:40Conclusion
This protocol can be used to perform large-scale ecological surveys of selfing Caenorhabditis nematodes. The primary advantage of this method is the efficient organization and analysis of ecological and molecular data associated with the nematodes collected from nature.
