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11. Benchtop Sorvall Legend RT Centrifuge with adapters for plate centrifugation
12. 15-25 C Percival Worm incubators
13. 37 C bacteria incubator
14. 37 C shaking incubator
15. Small rocking platform
16. Matrix WellMate (ThermoFisher) + Tubing cassettes
17. Aquarius (Tecan)
18. Corning aluminum sealing tapes for 96-well plates (#6570)
19. Abgene transparent adhesive plate seals (#AB-0580)
20. Clorox Germicidal Bleach (6.15% sodium hypochlorite), from Fisher.
21. Surveyor software (Media Cybernetics Inc.)
22. Leica stereoscopic microscopes with Luld Bioprecision stage and adaptors
Acknowledgments
The authors thank Eliana Munarriz for suggestions to the protocol, Kris Gunsalus, Katherine Erickson,
and Annalise Paaby for critical reading and editing of the manuscript, Carrie Nygard and Gina Destefano
for proofreading, and Amelia White and Huey-Ling Kao for suggestions to the figures. This work has
been supported by NIH grant #5R01HD046236-08.
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