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		Solutions DEPC (Sigma) to treat Howard's, dH2O 70 % ethanol (to clean eggs, etc.) Howard's Ringer's (sterile, RNase-free) TRIZOL (Sigma) Chloroform (RNase-free) Isopropanol (RNase-free) 75 % ethanol (RNase-free) dH2O (sterile, RNase-free) to make 1X MOPS, clean gel box, homogenizer probe, etc. PRIME RNase inhibitor (30 ul/400 ul dH2O for 10 samples) to resuspend RNA (5'3') 10X MOPS (powder from Sigma made up in DEPC-dH2O) 1X MOPS 37% formaldehyde (Sigma) RNA sample buffer (Sigma) 1 mg/ml EtBr cDNA synthesis kit (AMV RT, Life Sciences) For PCR reaction PCR tubes PCR reaction mix dH2O mineral oil