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<div class="technology">8/23</div>
 
<div class="technology">8/23</div>
 
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">Oriental fruit flies sent to lab and cultivated by large transparent box to avoid oriental fruit flies flying out.</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">Oriental fruit flies sent to lab and cultivated by large transparent box to avoid oriental fruit flies flying out.</p></li>
  
 
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<div class="technology">8/24</div>
 
<div class="technology">8/24</div>
 
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">We used both of centrifuge tube and feeding box to feed oriental fruit flies for comparing and ensuring the status of oriental fruit flies that established the independent space for observing oriental fruit flies.</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">We used both of centrifuge tube and feeding box to feed oriental fruit flies for comparing and ensuring the status of oriental fruit flies that established the independent space for observing oriental fruit flies.</p></li>
  
 
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<div class="technology">8/25</div>
 
<div class="technology">8/25</div>
 
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">B. dorsalis started to break through the cocoon. We conducted to put B. dorsalis to centrifuge tubes, avoiding the feeding box cannot load all oriental fruit flies. We poured the special agar to centrifuge tubes, and put centrifuges into entrance to catch oriental fruit flies. Then we sealed the centrifuge tubes by cotton. </li></p>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">B. dorsalis started to break through the cocoon. We conducted to put B. dorsalis to centrifuge tubes, avoiding the feeding box cannot load all oriental fruit flies. We poured the special agar to centrifuge tubes, and put centrifuges into entrance to catch oriental fruit flies. Then we sealed the centrifuge tubes by cotton. </li></p>
  
 
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<p style="font-size: 18px;">(The team members put agar into centrifuge tubes which would be their feed.)</p>
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<p style="font-size: 16px;">(The team members put agar into centrifuge tubes which would be their feed.)</p>
  
 
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<p style="font-size: 18px;">(The left picture is that oriental fruit flies broke through cocoon; the right picture is the feeding box & centrifuge tubes where fed oriental fruit flies.)</p>
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<p style="font-size: 16px;">(The left picture is that oriental fruit flies broke through cocoon; the right picture is the feeding box & centrifuge tubes where fed oriental fruit flies.)</p>
  
 
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<div class="technology">8/30</div>
 
<div class="technology">8/30</div>
 
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">First time to Conducting Experiment 1</p></li>
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<div class="technology">9/3</div>
 
<div class="technology">9/3</div>
 
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">Changing the centrifuge tubes where oriental fruit flies lived. (Avoid the environment being mess.) /p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">Changing the centrifuge tubes where oriental fruit flies lived. (Avoid the environment being mess.) /p></li>
  
 
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<div class="technology">9/5</div>
 
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">Changing the centrifuge tubes where oriental fruit flies lived.</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">Changing the centrifuge tubes where oriental fruit flies lived.</p></li>
  
 
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<div class="technology">9/6</div>
 
<div class="technology">9/6</div>
 
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">The oriental fruit flies in centrifuge tubes are dead quickly, so we conducted trouble shooting and sent the mail to professors who research oriental fruit flies.</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">The oriental fruit flies in centrifuge tubes are dead quickly, so we conducted trouble shooting and sent the mail to professors who research oriental fruit flies.</p></li>
<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">We took the trap to Beitou orchard to try to catch oriental fruit flies. </p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">We took the trap to Beitou orchard to try to catch oriental fruit flies. </p></li>
  
 
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<div class="technology">9/7</div>
 
<div class="technology">9/7</div>
 
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">Second time to Conducting Experiment 1.</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">Second time to Conducting Experiment 1.</p></li>
<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">Conducting trouble shooting.</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">Conducting trouble shooting.</p></li>
  
 
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<div class="technology">9/10</div>
 
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">Searching the store selling the silkworm for extracting hemolymph which is used to induce pMcl1.</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">Searching the store selling the silkworm for extracting hemolymph which is used to induce pMcl1.</p></li>
  
 
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<div class="technology">9/13</div>
 
<div class="technology">9/13</div>
 
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">Visiting two farmers working in the orchard to ask the information about oriental fruit flies in the nature environment, and installing the trap of catching oriental fruit flies.</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">Visiting two farmers working in the orchard to ask the information about oriental fruit flies in the nature environment, and installing the trap of catching oriental fruit flies.</p></li>
  
<p style="font-size: 18px;">(Left picture: the team member install the trap; Right picture: the farmer and our team member took a picture)</p>
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<p style="font-size: 16px;">(Left picture: the team member install the trap; Right picture: the farmer and our team member took a picture)</p>
  
 
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">Sent the mail to researchers to ask for making public the content of the mail.</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">Communicating with Chang Ming ecological education sericulture, asking the information of buying silkworm.</p></li>
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<div class="technology">9/16</div>
 
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">Picking up the oriental fruit fly larval from rotten guavas and feeding them.</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">Picking up the oriental fruit fly larval from rotten guavas and feeding them.</p></li>
<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">Left picture: the team members were picking up the oriental fruit fly larval from rotten guavas; Right picture: the larval have picked up and put into another box.  Expected becoming pupae after six days. </p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">Left picture: the team members were picking up the oriental fruit fly larval from rotten guavas; Right picture: the larval have picked up and put into another box.  Expected becoming pupae after six days. </p></li>
  
 
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/11: Standard part PgpdA amplification PCR with KOD polymerase</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">For the situation that our fruit flies in the centrifuge tubes were dead quickly , so we visited Dr. Yu-Bing Huang in Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Applied Zoology Division, and asking the problems about the right way for feeding oriental fruit flies. We change our way of feeding oriental fruit flies. </p></li>
<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/11: pBARGPE1 digested for pBAR_PgpdA_EL222_TtrpC construction</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/11: TtrpC KOD PCR amplification</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/11: TtrpC KOD PCR amplification</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/11: pBAR_PgpdA_EL222_TtrpC containing culture used in 3 in 1</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/11: pBAR_KR transformed into competent cell</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/11: pBAR_KR transformed into competent cell</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/12: pBAR_KR performed plasmid extraction and plasmid PCR (successful)</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/12: pBAR_PgpdA_EL222_TtrpC checked with restriction digestion</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/12: pBAR_PgpdA_EL222_TtrpC amplified with plasmid PCR</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/12: Successfully constructed the plasmid pBAR_PgpdA_EL222_TtrpC</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/12: Standard part PgpdA mutation PCR (mutated PstI)</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/12: Standard part PMCL1 amplification PCR with KOD polymerase</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/13: Standard Part PMCL1 mutation PCR (mutated SpeI) </p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/13: Standard part TtrpC amplification PCR with KOD polymerase</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/13: pBAR _RFP_TtrpC transformed into competent cell</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/13: RFP_TtrpC PCR to amplify the target sequence</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/13: pBAR _RFP_TtrpC did 3 in 1</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/13: pBAR _RFP_TtrpC digestion check</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/14: pBAR _RFP_TtrpC plasmid extraction</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/14: RFP_TtrpC digested</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/14: K118400 and TtrpC used PCR to amplify the target sequence</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/14: KR_TtrpC used PCR to amplify the target sequence</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/15: KR_TtrpC digested with restriction enzymes</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/15: Standard part TtrpC mutation PCR (mutated XbaI)</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/15: pBARGPE1 digested for pBAR_KR_TtrpC construction</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/16: pBAR_KR_TtrpC transformed into competent cell</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/16: Transformed pBAR_KR_TtrpC into competent cell</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/16: Digested pBAR_KR for transforming into Metarhizium anisopliae</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/16: Extracted plasmid BBa_K118400</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/16: pBAR_EL222_TtrpC did plasmid PCR</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/16: pBAR_EL222_TtrpC did plasmid PCR (confirmed successfully)</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/16: pBAR _RFP_TtrpC did digestion check</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/17: pBAR_RFP_TtrpC did digestion check</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/18: Transformed pBAR_RFP_TtrpC into competent cell</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">Producing new feeding box which is larger and ventilation, and design the experimental boxes for Experiment 2: Infecting B. dorsalis with non-designed M. anisopliae.</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/19: Amplified GFP from plasmid BBa_E0040</p></li> 
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/19: Extracted plasmid BBa_E0040 </p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/20: KR_TtrpC digestion</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/20: Transformed pBAR_KR_TtrpC into competent cell</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/20: pBAR_KR_TtrpC did 3 in 1</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/20: Extracted plasmid pBAR_KR_TtrpC </p></li>
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<p style="font-size: 16px;">(Left picture: experimental boxes; Right picture: the internal space of feeding box)</p>
<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/20: pBAR_KR_TtrpC did digestion check</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/20: Extracted plasmid pBAR_RFP_TtrpC </p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/20: pBAR_RFP_TtrpC did digestion check</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/20: RFP_TtrpC digestion</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/21: pBAR_KR_TtrpC did digestion check</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/21: pBAR_RFP_TtrpC did digestion check</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/21: pBAR_RFP_TtrpC did 2 in 1</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/21: pBARGPE1 and RFP_TtrpC digestion</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/22: Amplified RFP_TtrpC with KOD polymerase</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/22: Extracted plasmid pBAR_KR_TtrpC </p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/22: pBAR_KR_TtrpC did plasmid PCR</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/22: pMCL1 and pBAR_KR_TtrpC digestion (pMCL1 was not digested successfully)</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/22: pBAR_PgpdA_EL222_TtrpC digested for transforming into Metarhizium anisopliae </p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/23: Amplified pMCL1 with KOD polymerase</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/24: pBAR_RFP_TtrpC did digestion check</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/24: Extracted plasmid pBAR_RFP_TtrpC (from 9/5 plate)</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/25: Transformed pBAR_RFP_TtrpC into competent cell</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">The new oriental fruit flies broke through cocoon in the new feeding box</p></li>
<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/25: RFP_TtrpC digestion</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/25: Amplified RFP-TtrpC with KOD polymerase </p></li>
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<p style="font-size: 18px;">the new way for feeding oriental fruit flies is using gauze to be the windows that could be ventilation, and we can put watered agar and artificial feed on the top of gauze, then there were no water and feed in the box which lead to the environment being mess, and they also could have enough water and feed.</p>
<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/25: Amplified RFP_TtrpC with KOD polymerase</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/25: pMCL1 and pBAR_KR_TtrpC digestion</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">Infecting B. dorsalis with non-designed M. anisopliae started to conduct.</p></li>
<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/25: Transformed pBAR_pMCL1_KR_TtrpC into competent cell</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/25: Transformed pBAR_pMCL1_KR_TtrpC into competent cell</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/25: pBAR_pMCL1_KR_TtrpC did 3 in 1</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/26: Extracted plasmid pBAR_pMCL1_KR_TtrpC</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/26: pBAR_RFP_TtrpC did 2 in 1</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/26: Extracted plasmid pBAR_RFP_TtrpC </p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/26: pBAR_RFP_TtrpC did digestion check</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/26: pBAR_RFP_TtrpC did digestion check</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/26: Amplified pMCL1 with KOD polymerase</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/27: Amplified pMCL1 with KOD polymerase </p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/28: pBAR_pMCL1_KR_TtrpC did digestion check</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/28: pBAR_RFP_TtrpC did plasmid PCR</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/28: Successfully constructed the plasmid pBAR_RFP_TtrpC</p></li>  
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/29: Amplified pMCL1 with KOD polymerase</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/30: pBAR_pMCL1_KR_TtrpC did digestion check</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/30: Received the junction primer of GFP-TtrpC</p></li>
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<p style="font-size: 16px;">Photos shows three concentration condition and negative control environment of experiment "Infecting B. dorsalis with non-designed M. anisopliae"</p>
<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">9/30: GFP_TtrpC ran ligation PCR</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">10/1: GFP_TtrpC ran ligation PCR</p></li>
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<div class="technology">10/1</div>
 
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">10/2: GFP_TtrpC digested for ligation with pBARGPE1 </p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">Keeping on Experiment 2-1 (9/30~10/7)</p></li>
<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">10/2: Transformed pBAR_GFP_TtrpC into competent cells</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">10/2: pBARGPE1 digested for pBAR_GFP_TtrpC construction</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">10/2: pBARGPE1 resuspended (from cryopreservation)</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">10/3: Extracted plasmid pBARGPE1</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">10/3: pBAR_GFP_TtrpC containing cultures used in 2 in 1</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">10/3: Extracted plasmid pBAR_GFP_TtrpC</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">10/3: pBAR_GFP_TtrpC digestion check(failure)</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">10/3: pBAR_GFP_TtrpC PCR check(failure)</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">10/3: Transformed pBAR_GFP_TtrpC into competent cells</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">10/3: pBARGPE1 checked with restriction digestion (correct)</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">10/4: pBARGPE1 plasmid stored</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">10/4: pBAR_GFP_TtrpC containing cultures used in 2 in 1</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">10/4: pBAR_GFP_TtrpC plasmid extraction</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 18px;">10/4: pBAR_GFP_TtrpC digestion check</p></li>
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<p style="font-size:16px;">How to CULTURE oriental fruit flies?</p>
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<p style="font-size:16px;"> The oriental fruit flies can grow in a transparent large container and centrifuge tubes with a piece of cotton placed at the opening to prevent them from escaping while still allowing air exchange.</p>
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<p style="font-size:16px;"> Feeding on sucrose-peptone agar (sited by ATCC) when you choose the centrifuge tubes as their living environment; a ratio of composition below is the way to feed the fruit flies in a larger container. The larval need the other formula to grow up whether living in the centrifuge tubes or the larger transparent container. The adult feeding formula without peptone can also alive the oriental fruit flies but not breeding.</p>
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<p style="font-size:16px;">                Larva formula                                            Adult formula ratio
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Yeast extraction 35g                      Sucrose: yeast extraction: peptone
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Sucrose 60g                      3:1:1
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Oat                 120g
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Sodium benzoate 1g
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Hydrochloric acid 4.5ml, 37%
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Water 450ml
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<p style="font-size:16px;"> The advantage of cultivating in large container is avoiding the tight space that oriental fruit flies can almost only walk and then causing the growth medium spoil easily. On the other hand, cultivating the fruit flies in the centrifuge tubes can easily distinguish the situation of the oriental fruit flies, for example, gender, health, quantity to take the correct actions.</p>
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<p style="font-size:16px;">How to prevent COMTAMINATION?</p>
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<li><p style="font-size:16px;"></p>Adding preservatives, for instance, sodium benzoate, and decreasing environmental humidity can decease the growth of the mold on agar.</li>
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<li><p style="font-size:16px;"></p>Sterilize cotton according common lab procedure or just buy pre-sterilized one.</li><br />
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<p style="font-size:16px;">How do you KEEP the oriental fruit flies in place during experiments?</p>
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<li><p style="font-size:16px;"></p>Using carbon dioxide gas to induce comatose and try your best to contain the gas within the tube and the oriental fruit flies should be unconscious after 10-20 seconds.</li>
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<li><p style="font-size:16px;"></p>Induce coma under low temperature.</li><br />
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<p style="font-size:16px;">How about the methyl eugenol? Are there any suggestions on attracting the male oriental fruit flies or the actual situation that farmer using it to prevent the oriental fruit fly pest?</p>
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<li><p style="font-size:16px;">It is best to complete experiments using methyl eugenol before 2:00 PM.</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size:16px;">Several time experiments may cause the male oriental fruit flies became desensitized to methyl eugenol, so it's important to change the sample you test on the experiments routinely to avoid the factor to interfere the result.</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size:16px;">The attraction traps putting in the orchard need to add pure and undiluted methyl eugenol to capture the oriental fruit flies. It also needs some cottons or gauzes to separate the oriental fruit flies and methyl eugenol to prevent the chain of fruit flies and eventually causing the death.</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size:16px;">It's not a good idea to set the trap when (a) it's a rainy day (b) it's not the harvest season of the guava or tangerine, or the number of the fruit flies captured will not high.</p></li><br />
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<h2 style="margin-top:30px; margin-bottom:10px;">Acknowledgements</h2><hr />
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<p style="font-size:16px;">Beitou orchard
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S. J. Chen Grower
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<p style="font-size:16px;">Beitou orchard
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Z. L. Liao Grower
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<p style="font-size:16px;">Bioresource Collection and Research Center
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G. Y. Liou Fellow
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<p style="font-size:16px;">Chiayi Agricultural Experiment Branch
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P. H. Chen Research assistant
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<p style="font-size:16px;">Kaohsiung District Agricultural Research and Extension Station, COA, EY
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M. N. Tseng Research director
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<p style="font-size:16px;">National Chung Hsing University, the Department of Entomology
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S. Y. Hwang Professor
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<p style="font-size:16px;">National Chung Hsing University, the Department of Entomology
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Y. Y. Tseng Research assistant
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<p style="font-size:16px;">Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Applied Zoology Division
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M. Y. Chiang Research assistant
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<p style="font-size:16px;">Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Applied Zoology Division
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Y. B. Huang Professor
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">Oriental fruit flies sent to lab and cultivated by large transparent box to avoid oriental fruit flies flying out.</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">B. dorsalis started to break through the cocoon. We conducted to put B. dorsalis to centrifuge tubes, avoiding the feeding box cannot load all oriental fruit flies. We poured the special agar to centrifuge tubes, and put centrifuges into entrance to catch oriental fruit flies. Then we sealed the centrifuge tubes by cotton. </li></p>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">Searching the store selling the silkworm for extracting hemolymph which is used to induce pMcl1.</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">Visiting two farmers working in the orchard to ask the information about oriental fruit flies in the nature environment, and installing the trap of catching oriental fruit flies.</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">Picking up the oriental fruit fly larval from rotten guavas and feeding them.</p></li>
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<li><p style="font-size: 16px;">Left picture: the team members were picking up the oriental fruit fly larval from rotten guavas; Right picture: the larval have picked up and put into another box.  Expected becoming pupae after six days. </p></li>
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<p style="font-size: 18px;">the new way for feeding oriental fruit flies is using gauze to be the windows that could be ventilation, and we can put watered agar and artificial feed on the top of gauze, then there were no water and feed in the box which lead to the environment being mess, and they also could have enough water and feed.</p>
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<p style="font-size:16px;"> The oriental fruit flies can grow in a transparent large container and centrifuge tubes with a piece of cotton placed at the opening to prevent them from escaping while still allowing air exchange.</p>
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<p style="font-size:16px;"> Feeding on sucrose-peptone agar (sited by ATCC) when you choose the centrifuge tubes as their living environment; a ratio of composition below is the way to feed the fruit flies in a larger container. The larval need the other formula to grow up whether living in the centrifuge tubes or the larger transparent container. The adult feeding formula without peptone can also alive the oriental fruit flies but not breeding.</p>
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Yeast extraction 35g
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Sucrose 60g
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<p style="font-size:16px;"> The advantage of cultivating in large container is avoiding the tight space that oriental fruit flies can almost only walk and then causing the growth medium spoil easily. On the other hand, cultivating the fruit flies in the centrifuge tubes can easily distinguish the situation of the oriental fruit flies, for example, gender, health, quantity to take the correct actions.</p>
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<li><p style="font-size:16px;"></p>Adding preservatives, for instance, sodium benzoate, and decreasing environmental humidity can decease the growth of the mold on agar.</li>
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<li><p style="font-size:16px;"></p>Using carbon dioxide gas to induce comatose and try your best to contain the gas within the tube and the oriental fruit flies should be unconscious after 10-20 seconds.</li>
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<li><p style="font-size:16px;"></p>Induce coma under low temperature.</li><br />
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<p style="font-size:16px;">How about the methyl eugenol? Are there any suggestions on attracting the male oriental fruit flies or the actual situation that farmer using it to prevent the oriental fruit fly pest?</p>
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<li><p style="font-size:16px;">The attraction traps putting in the orchard need to add pure and undiluted methyl eugenol to capture the oriental fruit flies. It also needs some cottons or gauzes to separate the oriental fruit flies and methyl eugenol to prevent the chain of fruit flies and eventually causing the death.</p></li>
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<p style="font-size:16px;">Is the common characteristic among the hemolymph of Bactrocera dorsalis and other insects sufficiently confirmed the accuracy of the experiment result?</p><br />
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<p style="font-size:16px;">Beitou orchard
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S. J. Chen Grower
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Z. L. Liao Grower
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<p style="font-size:16px;">Bioresource Collection and Research Center
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G. Y. Liou Fellow
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<p style="font-size:16px;">Chiayi Agricultural Experiment Branch
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P. H. Chen Research assistant
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<p style="font-size:16px;">Kaohsiung District Agricultural Research and Extension Station, COA, EY
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M. N. Tseng Research director
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S. Y. Hwang Professor
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Y. Y. Tseng Research assistant
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<p style="font-size:16px;">Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Applied Zoology Division
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M. Y. Chiang Research assistant
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Overview


This section of our wiki contains the protocols for our insect experiments, including cultivation, infection rate tests, and hemolymph extraction.

Related experiment schedule & Lab note



Experiments

                                       
Experiments related to B. dorsalisNumberDate
Diameter of the tunnel that allows passage to one B. dorsalis18/30~9/1
Infecting B. dorsalis with non-designed M. anisopliae2-19/30~10/7
infecting female B. dorsalis by copulation with infected male B. dorsalis2-210/10~10/17
                                       
Experiments related to B. dorsalisNumberDate
Diameter of the tunnel that allows passage to one B. dorsalis18/30~9/1
Infecting B. dorsalis with non-designed M. anisopliae2-19/30~10/7
infecting female B. dorsalis by copulation with infected male B. dorsalis2-210/10~10/17
                                       
Experiments about hemolymph extractionNumberDate
Blatta lateralis19/20~9/30
Bactrocera dorsalis29/29~10/5
Bombyx mori310/3~10/
                                       
Experiments about hemolymph extractionNumberDate
Blatta lateralis19/20~9/30
Bactrocera dorsalis29/29~10/5
Bombyx mori310/3~10/

Routine works

                       
Routine tasks of feeding Bactrocera dorsalisDate
Produce & change the tube with the specific agar8/24~9/20
Produce & change water gel and the specific ratio fodder9/22~10/
                       
Routine tasks of feeding Bactrocera dorsalisDate
Produce & change the tube with the specific agar8/24~9/20
Produce & change water gel and the specific ratio fodder9/22~10/
                       
Routine tasks of hemolymph extractionDate
Collect the mulberry leaves to feed the silkworm10/3~10/
Sterilize the related equipments9/20~10/
                       
Routine tasks of hemolymph extractionDate
Collect the mulberry leaves to feed the silkworm10/3~10/
Sterilize the related equipments9/20~10/


8/23
  • Oriental fruit flies sent to lab and cultivated by large transparent box to avoid oriental fruit flies flying out.

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    8/24
  • We used both of centrifuge tube and feeding box to feed oriental fruit flies for comparing and ensuring the status of oriental fruit flies that established the independent space for observing oriental fruit flies.


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    8/25
  • B. dorsalis started to break through the cocoon. We conducted to put B. dorsalis to centrifuge tubes, avoiding the feeding box cannot load all oriental fruit flies. We poured the special agar to centrifuge tubes, and put centrifuges into entrance to catch oriental fruit flies. Then we sealed the centrifuge tubes by cotton.

  • (The team members put agar into centrifuge tubes which would be their feed.)

    (The left picture is that oriental fruit flies broke through cocoon; the right picture is the feeding box & centrifuge tubes where fed oriental fruit flies.)

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    8/30
  • First time to Conducting Experiment 1

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    9/3
  • Changing the centrifuge tubes where oriental fruit flies lived. (Avoid the environment being mess.) /p>

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    9/5
  • Changing the centrifuge tubes where oriental fruit flies lived.

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    9/6
  • The oriental fruit flies in centrifuge tubes are dead quickly, so we conducted trouble shooting and sent the mail to professors who research oriental fruit flies.

  • We took the trap to Beitou orchard to try to catch oriental fruit flies.

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    9/7
  • Second time to Conducting Experiment 1.

  • Conducting trouble shooting.

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    9/10
  • Searching the store selling the silkworm for extracting hemolymph which is used to induce pMcl1.

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    9/13
  • Visiting two farmers working in the orchard to ask the information about oriental fruit flies in the nature environment, and installing the trap of catching oriental fruit flies.

  • (Left picture: the team member install the trap; Right picture: the farmer and our team member took a picture)

  • Sent the mail to researchers to ask for making public the content of the mail.

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    9/15
  • Communicating with Chang Ming ecological education sericulture, asking the information of buying silkworm.

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    9/16
  • Picking up the oriental fruit fly larval from rotten guavas and feeding them.

  • Left picture: the team members were picking up the oriental fruit fly larval from rotten guavas; Right picture: the larval have picked up and put into another box. Expected becoming pupae after six days.

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    9/22
  • For the situation that our fruit flies in the centrifuge tubes were dead quickly , so we visited Dr. Yu-Bing Huang in Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Applied Zoology Division, and asking the problems about the right way for feeding oriental fruit flies. We change our way of feeding oriental fruit flies.

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    9/23
  • Producing new feeding box which is larger and ventilation, and design the experimental boxes for Experiment 2: Infecting B. dorsalis with non-designed M. anisopliae.

  • (Left picture: experimental boxes; Right picture: the internal space of feeding box)

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    9/30
  • The new oriental fruit flies broke through cocoon in the new feeding box

  • the new way for feeding oriental fruit flies is using gauze to be the windows that could be ventilation, and we can put watered agar and artificial feed on the top of gauze, then there were no water and feed in the box which lead to the environment being mess, and they also could have enough water and feed.


  • Infecting B. dorsalis with non-designed M. anisopliae started to conduct.


  • Photos shows three concentration condition and negative control environment of experiment "Infecting B. dorsalis with non-designed M. anisopliae"

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    10/1
  • Keeping on Experiment 2-1 (9/30~10/7)

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    10/7
  • Experiment 2-1 finished.

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    10/10

    Experiment 2-2 "infecting female B. dorsalis by copulation with infected male B. dorsalis" started to conduct.

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    Q&A Section


    How to CULTURE oriental fruit flies?

    The oriental fruit flies can grow in a transparent large container and centrifuge tubes with a piece of cotton placed at the opening to prevent them from escaping while still allowing air exchange.

    Feeding on sucrose-peptone agar (sited by ATCC) when you choose the centrifuge tubes as their living environment; a ratio of composition below is the way to feed the fruit flies in a larger container. The larval need the other formula to grow up whether living in the centrifuge tubes or the larger transparent container. The adult feeding formula without peptone can also alive the oriental fruit flies but not breeding.

    Larva formula Adult formula ratio Yeast extraction 35g Sucrose: yeast extraction: peptone Sucrose 60g 3:1:1 Oat 120g Sodium benzoate 1g Hydrochloric acid 4.5ml, 37% Water 450ml

    The advantage of cultivating in large container is avoiding the tight space that oriental fruit flies can almost only walk and then causing the growth medium spoil easily. On the other hand, cultivating the fruit flies in the centrifuge tubes can easily distinguish the situation of the oriental fruit flies, for example, gender, health, quantity to take the correct actions.

    How to prevent COMTAMINATION?

  • Adding preservatives, for instance, sodium benzoate, and decreasing environmental humidity can decease the growth of the mold on agar.
  • Sterilize cotton according common lab procedure or just buy pre-sterilized one.

  • How do you KEEP the oriental fruit flies in place during experiments?

  • Using carbon dioxide gas to induce comatose and try your best to contain the gas within the tube and the oriental fruit flies should be unconscious after 10-20 seconds.
  • Induce coma under low temperature.

  • How about the methyl eugenol? Are there any suggestions on attracting the male oriental fruit flies or the actual situation that farmer using it to prevent the oriental fruit fly pest?

  • It is best to complete experiments using methyl eugenol before 2:00 PM.

  • Several time experiments may cause the male oriental fruit flies became desensitized to methyl eugenol, so it's important to change the sample you test on the experiments routinely to avoid the factor to interfere the result.

  • The attraction traps putting in the orchard need to add pure and undiluted methyl eugenol to capture the oriental fruit flies. It also needs some cottons or gauzes to separate the oriental fruit flies and methyl eugenol to prevent the chain of fruit flies and eventually causing the death.

  • It's not a good idea to set the trap when (a) it's a rainy day (b) it's not the harvest season of the guava or tangerine, or the number of the fruit flies captured will not high.


  • Acknowledgements


    Beitou orchard S. J. Chen Grower

    Beitou orchard Z. L. Liao Grower

    Bioresource Collection and Research Center G. Y. Liou Fellow

    Chiayi Agricultural Experiment Branch P. H. Chen Research assistant

    Kaohsiung District Agricultural Research and Extension Station, COA, EY M. N. Tseng Research director

    National Chung Hsing University, the Department of Entomology S. Y. Hwang Professor

    National Chung Hsing University, the Department of Entomology Y. Y. Tseng Research assistant

    Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Applied Zoology Division M. Y. Chiang Research assistant

    Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Applied Zoology Division Y. B. Huang Professor /p>

    Overview


    This section of our wiki contains the protocols for our insect experiments, including cultivation, infection rate tests, and hemolymph extraction.

    Related experiment schedule & Lab note


    Experiments

                                           
    Experiments related to B. dorsalisNumberDate
    Diameter of the tunnel that allows passage to one B. dorsalis18/30~9/1
    Infecting B. dorsalis with non-designed M. anisopliae2-19/30~10/7
    infecting female B. dorsalis by copulation with infected male B. dorsalis2-210/10~10/17
                                           
    Experiments about hemolymph extractionNumberDate
    Blatta lateralis19/20~9/30
    Bactrocera dorsalis29/29~10/5
    Bombyx mori310/3~10/

    Routine works

                           
    Routine tasks of feeding Bactrocera dorsalisDate
    Produce & change the tube with the specific agar8/24~9/20
    Produce & change water gel and the specific ratio fodder9/22~10/
                           
    Routine tasks of hemolymph extractionDate
    Collect the mulberry leaves to feed the silkworm10/3~10/
    Sterilize the related equipments9/20~10/


    8/23
  • Oriental fruit flies sent to lab and cultivated by large transparent box to avoid oriental fruit flies flying out.

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    8/24
  • We used both of centrifuge tube and feeding box to feed oriental fruit flies for comparing and ensuring the status of oriental fruit flies that established the independent space for observing oriental fruit flies.


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    8/25
  • B. dorsalis started to break through the cocoon. We conducted to put B. dorsalis to centrifuge tubes, avoiding the feeding box cannot load all oriental fruit flies. We poured the special agar to centrifuge tubes, and put centrifuges into entrance to catch oriental fruit flies. Then we sealed the centrifuge tubes by cotton.

  • (The team members put agar into centrifuge tubes which would be their feed.)

    (The left picture is that oriental fruit flies broke through cocoon; the right picture is the feeding box & centrifuge tubes where fed oriental fruit flies.)

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    8/30
  • First time to Conducting Experiment 1

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    9/3
  • Changing the centrifuge tubes where oriental fruit flies lived. (Avoid the environment being mess.) /p>

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    9/5
  • Changing the centrifuge tubes where oriental fruit flies lived.

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    9/6
  • The oriental fruit flies in centrifuge tubes are dead quickly, so we conducted trouble shooting and sent the mail to professors who research oriental fruit flies.

  • We took the trap to Beitou orchard to try to catch oriental fruit flies.

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    9/7
  • Second time to Conducting Experiment 1.

  • Conducting trouble shooting.

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    9/10
  • Searching the store selling the silkworm for extracting hemolymph which is used to induce pMcl1.

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    9/13
  • Visiting two farmers working in the orchard to ask the information about oriental fruit flies in the nature environment, and installing the trap of catching oriental fruit flies.

  • (Left picture: the team member install the trap; Right picture: the farmer and our team member took a picture)

  • Sent the mail to researchers to ask for making public the content of the mail.

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    9/15
  • Communicating with Chang Ming ecological education sericulture, asking the information of buying silkworm.

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    9/16
  • Picking up the oriental fruit fly larval from rotten guavas and feeding them.

  • Left picture: the team members were picking up the oriental fruit fly larval from rotten guavas; Right picture: the larval have picked up and put into another box. Expected becoming pupae after six days.

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    9/22
  • For the situation that our fruit flies in the centrifuge tubes were dead quickly , so we visited Dr. Yu-Bing Huang in Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Applied Zoology Division, and asking the problems about the right way for feeding oriental fruit flies. We change our way of feeding oriental fruit flies.

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    9/23
  • Producing new feeding box which is larger and ventilation, and design the experimental boxes for Experiment 2: Infecting B. dorsalis with non-designed M. anisopliae.

  • (Left picture: experimental boxes; Right picture: the internal space of feeding box)

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    9/30
  • The new oriental fruit flies broke through cocoon in the new feeding box

  • the new way for feeding oriental fruit flies is using gauze to be the windows that could be ventilation, and we can put watered agar and artificial feed on the top of gauze, then there were no water and feed in the box which lead to the environment being mess, and they also could have enough water and feed.


  • Infecting B. dorsalis with non-designed M. anisopliae started to conduct.


  • Photos shows three concentration condition and negative control environment of experiment "Infecting B. dorsalis with non-designed M. anisopliae"

    [Collapse]

    10/1
  • Keeping on Experiment 2-1 (9/30~10/7)

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    10/7
  • Experiment 2-1 finished.

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    10/10

    Experiment 2-2 "infecting female B. dorsalis by copulation with infected male B. dorsalis" started to conduct.

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    Q&A Section


    How to CULTURE oriental fruit flies?

    The oriental fruit flies can grow in a transparent large container and centrifuge tubes with a piece of cotton placed at the opening to prevent them from escaping while still allowing air exchange.

    Feeding on sucrose-peptone agar (sited by ATCC) when you choose the centrifuge tubes as their living environment; a ratio of composition below is the way to feed the fruit flies in a larger container. The larval need the other formula to grow up whether living in the centrifuge tubes or the larger transparent container. The adult feeding formula without peptone can also alive the oriental fruit flies but not breeding.

    Larva formula Yeast extraction 35g Sucrose 60g Oat 120g Sodium benzoate 1g Hydrochloric acid 4.5ml, 37% Water 450ml Adult formula ratio Sucrose: yeast extraction: peptone 3:1:1

    The advantage of cultivating in large container is avoiding the tight space that oriental fruit flies can almost only walk and then causing the growth medium spoil easily. On the other hand, cultivating the fruit flies in the centrifuge tubes can easily distinguish the situation of the oriental fruit flies, for example, gender, health, quantity to take the correct actions.

    How to prevent COMTAMINATION?

  • Adding preservatives, for instance, sodium benzoate, and decreasing environmental humidity can decease the growth of the mold on agar.
  • Sterilize cotton according common lab procedure or just buy pre-sterilized one.

  • How do you KEEP the oriental fruit flies in place during experiments?

  • Using carbon dioxide gas to induce comatose and try your best to contain the gas within the tube and the oriental fruit flies should be unconscious after 10-20 seconds.
  • Induce coma under low temperature.

  • How about the methyl eugenol? Are there any suggestions on attracting the male oriental fruit flies or the actual situation that farmer using it to prevent the oriental fruit fly pest?

  • It is best to complete experiments using methyl eugenol before 2:00 PM.

  • Several time experiments may cause the male oriental fruit flies became desensitized to methyl eugenol, so it's important to change the sample you test on the experiments routinely to avoid the factor to interfere the result.

  • The attraction traps putting in the orchard need to add pure and undiluted methyl eugenol to capture the oriental fruit flies. It also needs some cottons or gauzes to separate the oriental fruit flies and methyl eugenol to prevent the chain of fruit flies and eventually causing the death.

  • It's not a good idea to set the trap when (a) it's a rainy day (b) it's not the harvest season of the guava or tangerine, or the number of the fruit flies captured will not high.


  • Is the common characteristic among the hemolymph of Bactrocera dorsalis and other insects sufficiently confirmed the accuracy of the experiment result?


    Can the designed M. anisopliae actually invade B. dorsalis?

    Acknowledgements


    Beitou orchard S. J. Chen Grower

    Beitou orchard Z. L. Liao Grower

    Bioresource Collection and Research Center G. Y. Liou Fellow

    Chiayi Agricultural Experiment Branch P. H. Chen Research assistant

    Kaohsiung District Agricultural Research and Extension Station, COA, EY M. N. Tseng Research director

    National Chung Hsing University, the Department of Entomology S. Y. Hwang Professor

    National Chung Hsing University, the Department of Entomology Y. Y. Tseng Research assistant

    Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Applied Zoology Division M. Y. Chiang Research assistant

    Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute, Applied Zoology Division Y. B. Huang Professor /p>