Caenorhabditis Sieve: A Low-tech Instrument and Methodology for Sorting Small Multicellular OrganismsSkyler Hunter *1,2, Malabika Maulik *3, Courtney Scerbak 4, Elena Vayndorf 2, Barbara E. Taylor 5
1Department of Biology and Wildlife, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2Institute of Arctic Biology, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 3Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Alaska Fairbanks, 4Departments of Biology and Chemistry, Earlham College, 5Department of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Science and Mathematics, California State University Long Beach
The current protocol includes a methodology for the sorting and cleaning of age-matched populations of Caenorhabditis elegans. It uses a simple, inexpensive, and efficient custom-made tool to obtain a large experimental population of nematodes for research.
