Back to the future: museum specimens in population genetics

P Wandeler, PEA Hoeck, LF Keller - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2007‏ - cell.com
Museums and other natural history collections (NHC) worldwide house millions of
specimens. With the advent of molecular genetic approaches these collections have …

A hands-on overview of tissue preservation methods for molecular genetic analyses

ZT Nagy - Organisms Diversity & Evolution, 2010‏ - Springer
DNA studies have overwhelming importance in biological science. The aim of this paper is
to present a compact and hands-on summary of widely available tissue preservation …

Ten species in one: DNA barcoding reveals cryptic species in the neotropical skipper butterfly Astraptes fulgerator

PDN Hebert, EH Penton, JM Burns, DH Janzen… - Proceedings of the …, 2004‏ - pnas.org
Astraptes fulgerator, first described in 1775, is a common and widely distributed neotropical
skipper butterfly (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae). We combine 25 years of natural history …

[ספר][B] Forensic entomology: an introduction

D Gennard - 2012‏ - books.google.com
Forensic Entomology provides undergraduates with a concise introduction to the subject.
The book is written with the clarity necessary for students starting out in entomology yet …

A DNA 'Barcode Blitz': Rapid digitization and sequencing of a natural history collection

PDN Hebert, JR Dewaard, EV Zakharov, SWJ Prosser… - PloS one, 2013‏ - journals.plos.org
DNA barcoding protocols require the linkage of each sequence record to a voucher
specimen that has, whenever possible, been authoritatively identified. Natural history …

DNA barcodes from century‐old type specimens using next‐generation sequencing

SWJ Prosser, JR Dewaard, SE Miller… - Molecular ecology …, 2016‏ - Wiley Online Library
Type specimens have high scientific importance because they provide the only certain
connection between the application of a Linnean name and a physical specimen. Many …

DNA damage in preserved specimens and tissue samples: a molecular assessment

J Zimmermann, M Hajibabaei, DC Blackburn… - Frontiers in …, 2008‏ - Springer
The extraction of genetic information from preserved tissue samples or museum specimens
is a fundamental component of many fields of research, including the Barcode of Life …

Recovery of DNA barcodes from blackfly museum specimens (D iptera: S imuliidae) using primer sets that target a variety of sequence lengths

LM Hernández‐Triana, SW Prosser… - Molecular Ecology …, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of various primers for the purpose of DNA barcoding
old, pinned museum specimens of blackflies (D iptera: S imuliidae). We analysed 271 …

Adding leaves to the Lepidoptera tree: capturing hundreds of nuclear genes from old museum specimens

C Mayer, L Dietz, E Call, S Kukowka… - Systematic …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Museum collections around the world contain billions of specimens, including rare and
extinct species. If their genetic information could be retrieved at a large scale, this would …

Assessing DNA barcodes for species identification in North American reptiles and amphibians in natural history collections

EA Chambers, PDN Hebert - PLoS One, 2016‏ - journals.plos.org
Background High rates of species discovery and loss have led to the urgent need for more
rapid assessment of species diversity in the herpetofauna. DNA barcoding allows for the …