Cryobiology
CRA-Istituto Sperimentale per la Zoologia Agraria, Cascine del Riecio, Firenze, Italy.
Published: June 2006
Low temperatures can assure the long-term or even indefinite preservation of important biological specimens. Nematode cryopreservation allows for the availability of large numbers of living nematodes at any one time, especially for experimental purposes. New isolates of Bursaphelenchus have recently been collected, including Bursaphelenchus eremus (Rühm) Goodey. This species was identified in north-central Italy on dying oak trees and from the bark beetle Scolytus intricatus Ratzeburg as dauer larvae. We therefore, sought to develop a cryopreservation technique for the long-term storage of all available Bursaphelenchus spp. The technique consists of a rapid-cooling protocol involving immersion in a liquid nitrogen bath before storage of the frozen samples in a mechanical freezer at -140 degrees C. The survival of nematodes subjected to this rapid-cooling protocol was higher than previously reported using slow-cooling methods and is suitable for several species of Bursaphelenchus and other phytoparasitic nematodes.
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