Appendix 3
Commercially Available Culture Medium Products
and List of Suppliers
A Commercially Available Culture Medium Products
Name of media
Used for
Supplier
Chiu & Black medium
Leafhoppers
Sigma
D-22
Drosophila melanogaster
Sigma
Express Five SFM
Trichoplusia ni
Gibeo
Grace medium
Most insects
Sigma, Gibco
IPL-41
Most insects
Sigma, Gibco
L-15 with 10% TPB
Blood-sucking insects
Sigma
L-15 + MEM (1: 1) Hank's
Ticks
Sigma
salts + 10% TPB
MEM + Earl's salts and
Aedes albopictus C6/36
Sigma
non-essential amino acids
clone
RPMI-1640
Echinococcus multilocularis
Flow Laboratories
Mitsuhashi and
Most insects
Sigma
Maramorosch medium
Schield and Sang medium M3
D. melanogaster
Sigma
Schneider medium
Dipteran insects
Sigma, Gibco
SF-900 II SFM
Spodoptera frugiperda
Gibco
TC-100
Lepidopteran insects
Sigma, Gibeo
TNM-FH
Lepidopteran insects
Sigma
SFM, serum free medium; TPB, triptose phosphate broth; MEM, minimal essential medium.
B List of Suppliers
Agfa: Geneva, Switzerland
American Ins.: Silver Spring, MD, USA
American National Can Co.: Menasha, WI, USA
American Type Culture Collection: Rockville, MD, USA
Amicon Corp.: Danvers, MA, USA
Aquarium Systems: Eastlake, OH, USA
Arthur H. Thomas: Philadelphia, PA, USA
Becton-Dickinson Labware: Lincoln Park, N], USA
Bel-Art: Pequannock, N], USA
Belleo Glass: Vineland, N], USA
Biochrom: Berlin, Germany
Bio-Rad: Richmond, CA, USA