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JOURNAL OF PLANKTON RESEARCH | VOLUME 8 | NUMBER 5 | PAGES 1003-1008 | 1986
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Glutaraldehyde fixation to maintain biomass of preserved plankton

W.J. Kimmerer1 and A. D. McKinnon2

Department of Zoology, University of Melbourne Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia 1Present address: BioSystems Analysis, Inc. GGNRA/GGEC, Sausalito, CA 94965, USA 2Present address: Australian Institute of Marine Science PMB No. 3, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

Received on May 1, 1985; accepted on April 1, 1986 Fixation with glutaraldehyde in seawater is shown to be effective in reducing the loss of dry wt associated with preservation of plankton. Loss of dry wt from several plankton species and from bulk plankton samples was negligible. Organic weight loss was significant in some experiments, but less than that caused by formaldehyde. In a single experiment, carbon loss was zero, but nitrogen loss was high.


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