Chris said: we prepared slides of
> Nosema ceranea from a sample kindly provided by the Central Science Laboratory
> and were unable visually to distinguish them from the N.apis samples. The lab people who do it for a living can't be sure by looking and so use a PCR machine.
Hi Chris,
I'm seeing tremendous variablity in spore shape and size. I thought
that I found some N apis in some colonies with dysentery. However,
when I sent them in for PCR, they were all N ceranae. If anyone has a
sample or slide of N apis, I would love for you to send it to me!
Randy
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