Grasshopper Eggs and the Paraffin Method
- 20 October 1933
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 78 (2025), 366
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.78.2025.366
Abstract
The authors discuss the details of a successful procedure for preparing yolk-laden eggs for paraffin sectioning; the essential features differentiating it from those commonly employed consist of (1) treatment of the fixed eggs with phenol in alcohol and (2) soaking the embedded eggs in water.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- New Fixing Fluids for General PurposesScience, 1933
- A study of the chromosomes in meiosis, fertilization, and cleavage in the grasshopper egg (orthoptera)Journal of Morphology, 1928