If you want your specimen to be of possible use for DNA studies, putting
the live animal into as strong an ethanol solution as is available is
probably the best approach. However, this does not preserve the anatomy as
well. Isopropyl does not work well for preserving DNA.
David C.
"Old Seashells"
Department of Geology
CB 3315 Mitchell Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill NC 27599-3315
919-962-0685
FAX 919-966-4519
"He had discovered an unknown bivalve, forming a new genus"-E. A. Poe, The
Gold Bug