It should be noted that I am using these plates solely for growing AX2 strains for a bacterial predation protocol.  No cloning, development,  etc.

On Jan 31, 2013, at 11:41 AM, Gerda Saxer wrote:

> Before using Formedium we consistently used the same peptone (e.g. #3 or #2) for an experiment.  Changing the peptone seemed to effect the wild clones in particular.  
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> Gerda
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> On Jan 31, 2013, at 10:27 AM, Joan Strassmann wrote:
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>> Generally switching media can be risky, particularly in the middle of an experiment. We have increasingly turned to the very uniform product from Formedium.
>> Joan
>> On Jan 31, 2013, at 8:04 AM, John B. Biggins wrote:
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>>> Dicty newbie here:  
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>>> Anyone see any difference in using bacto peptone instead of proteose peptone in SM plates?
>>> 
>>> Thanks
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