Reptile mitochondria

Sometimes we are fortunate to receive the unwanted carcasses of dead animals. We are interested in understanding more about mitochondria in all types of animals. Cold blooded reptiles have a different way of managing energy and we'd like to see how this might be reflected in their mitochondria. We were not really fully prepared to receive 19 frozen pythons but when there is the possibility of doing such interesting studies there is no way that we can let the precious tissues go to waste!