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Minor Worker Ant Posts: 82 06/10/2006 6:38 PM
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For those interested, I believe that the journal article describing the Bhatkar diet (from the Florida Entymologist) can be found at: fulltext10.fcla.edu/DLDat...p0011u.pdf (Adobe Reader required to read the PDF file)
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Posts: 17064 06/10/2006 7:08 PM
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Hello napaeozapus and welcome. Nice find and post.
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nepenthes |
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Loyal Worker Ant Posts: 954 06/10/2006 9:11 PM
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 I need to start paying attention if they are PDF or not...Agar is easly obtained from the web. Cheers __________________________________
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anhzor |
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Adult Worker Ant Posts: 256 06/11/2006 12:37 AM
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what the benifit that agar has over diluted sugar?
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Minor Worker Ant Posts: 82 06/11/2006 5:22 AM
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Agar itself is simply a gelling agent composed of a sugar (galactose) polymer. The major benefit of using it for microbiology applications is that very few bacteria can digest it. Assumably, the ants fair better in this regard. If one were looking to duplicate the gel media used in the space shuttle experiment, this recipe might be a reasonable place to start, although my guess is that they modified a recipe from microbiology or plant tissue culture applications.
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Loyal Worker Ant Posts: 954 06/11/2006 6:12 AM
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Agar is used for Bacterial, Mycological, and im not sure aobu tit being used for plants It might be used for Tissue Culture it is plausible. Its preaty versitile stuff. Not to mention fun! Thats why mould easly grows in it if its not taken out with in a short amout of time. It is readly used for Mycoligy (thats mushrooms and mold studys)
But their are difrent sugars used in agar, Malt agar for example is good for mushrooms. then theirs dextrous agar and a bunch of others used for bacterial research. Im probably messing up these names. But im sure you get the jist if they used one ants would love it. Cheers __________________________________
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Minor Worker Ant Posts: 82 06/11/2006 6:52 AM
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I took a seminar on plant tissue culture a while back, and agar is used quite extensively as a medium to hold explants in position. It is very common to add supplements (vitamins, organic compounds, macro- and micro-nutrients) and plant hormones (auxins or cytokinins) to the media. There are many standard recipes for growing different types of plants (Murashige & Skoog, Gamborg's B-5, etc.) with multiple variations on each. Fungal contamination of the media is a problem, since it's hard to completely sterilize plant tissue without killing it. One of the products used to combat this problem is called PPM (Plant Preservative Mixture) from Plant Cell Technology, Inc. (www.ppm4plant-tc.com ). It is a biocide, so I don't know if it would work with ants or not. The literature I have says it targets and inhibits multiple enzymes, so maybe not. However, there are many other anti-fungal and antibiotic agents out there that might be compatible. Just for the record, I am in no way affiliated with Plant Cell Technology, Inc. yada-yada...
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Loyal Worker Ant Posts: 954 06/11/2006 5:02 PM
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 Whoohoo carnivorous plant tissue culture! i need to get in on this! Cheers __________________________________
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Minor Worker Ant Posts: 82 06/12/2006 3:41 PM
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Getting kind of off topic, but check out www.kitchenculturekit.com/index.htm to learn how to do plant tissue culture in the home. Lots of info out there for carnivorous plants.
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