Mining museums for historical DNA: advances and challenges in museomics

CJ Raxworthy, BT Smith - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2021 - cell.com
Historical DNA (hDNA), obtained from museum and herbarium specimens, has yielded
spectacular new insights into the history of organisms. This includes documenting historical …

Museum genomics

DC Card, B Shapiro, G Giribet, C Moritz… - Annual review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Natural history collections are invaluable repositories of biological information that provide
an unrivaled record of Earth's biodiversity. Museum genomics—genomics research using …

The changing face of genome assemblies: Guidance on achieving high‐quality reference genomes

A Whibley, JL Kelley, SR Narum - 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The quality of genome assemblies has improved rapidly in recent years due to continual
advances in sequencing technology, assembly approaches, and quality control. In the field …

Chromosome size affects sequence divergence between species through the interplay of recombination and selection

A Tigano, R Khan, AD Omer, D Weisz, O Dudchenko… - …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The structure of the genome shapes the distribution of genetic diversity and sequence
divergence. To investigate how the relationship between chromosome size and …

HyRAD-X exome capture museomics unravels giant ground beetle evolution

EFA Toussaint, J Gauthier, J Bilat… - Genome biology and …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Advances in phylogenomics contribute toward resolving long-standing evolutionary
questions. Notwithstanding, genetic diversity contained within more than a billion biological …

Predictors of sequence capture in a large-scale anchored phylogenomics project

R Nunes, C Storer, T Doleck, AY Kawahara… - Frontiers in ecology …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have revolutionized phylogenomics by
decreasing the cost and time required to generate sequence data from multiple markers or …

Effects of Quaternary climatic oscillations over the Chacoan fauna: phylogeographic patterns in the southern three-banded armadillo Tolypeutes matacus (Cingulata …

AM Ferreiro, JD Pinotti, S Poljak… - Zoological Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The southern three-banded armadillo, Tolypeutes matacus, is one of the most representative
species of the South American Chaco region. The susceptibility of this species to climatic …

Develo** the protocol infrastructure for DNA sequencing natural history collections

G Ferrari, L Esselens, ML Hart… - Biodiversity Data …, 2023 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Intentionally preserved biological material in natural history collections represents a vast
repository of biodiversity. Advances in laboratory and sequencing technologies have made …

High-throughput degraded DNA sequencing of subfossil shells of a critically endangered stenoendemic land snail in the Aegean

N Psonis, K Vardinoyannis, N Poulakakis - Molecular Phylogenetics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
High-throughput sequencing has enabled the comprehensive genetic exploration of
biological diversity, especially by using natural history collections to study hard-to-find …

High total water loss driven by low-fat diet in desert-adapted mice

DM Blumstein, JP Colella, E Linder… - Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Availability of food resources is an important driver of survival. Populations must either
relocate or adapt to persist in environments where food availability is changing. An optimal …