Fast egg collection method greatly improves randomness of egg sampling in Drosophila melanogaster

Fly

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 44-46

  Schou, Mads Fristrup ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Density control; Egg to adult viability; Random sampling; Reliability; Sampling error

Indexed keywords

DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER;

ANIMAL; BREEDING; CYTOLOGY; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; METHODOLOGY; OVUM; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZATION;

ANIMALS; BREEDING; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; OVUM; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84873845324     PISSN: 19336934     EISSN: 19336942     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/fly.22758     Document Type: Article

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