Barbie Heid wrote:

Thanks, everybody, for the feedback ~



Depends on why you are preserving it. Formalin causes some changes in
tissues - particularly changes in color. Alcohol does this to a lesser
degree.
Diagnostics=formalin


Systematics = either, though many prefer alcohol

He's going to one of three places out west; some people are doing various
studies with his family (tinctorus). I didn't have a choice but to use an
isopropyl/distilled water solution; they are checking with the lab to see if
they can still extract DNA with that (he said they prefer everclear).

They should be able to - it is a second shoice (iso) but it can be done.


Keith


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