• Successful application of ancient DNA extraction and library construction protocols to museum wet collection specimens 

      Straube, Nicolas; Lyra, Mariana L.; Paijmans, Johanna L. A.; Preick, Michaela; Basler, Nikolas; Penner, Johannes; Rödel, Mark-Oliver; Westbury, Michael V; Haddad, Célio F. B.; Barlow, Axel; Hofreiter, Michael (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      Millions of scientific specimens are housed in museum collections, a large part of which are fluid preserved. The use of formaldehyde as fixative and subsequent storage in ethanol is especially common in ichthyology and ...