Sequencing museum material

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Project title:

Using target enrichment to exploit old museum material for phylogenomic research

ZFMK Project lead:

Dr. Marianne Espeland

Unit:

Lepidoptera, Statistical Phylogenetics and Phylogenomics, Centre for Molecular Biodiversity Research (zmb)

Object of research:

Lepidoptera, phylogenetics

Description

In this project we investigate how we efficiently can use old, dried, museum materil for phylogenomic studies. A hybrid enrichment kit for Lepidoptera is being designed and first test are promising, indicating that hundreds of genes can be successfully seqeunced for over 130 year old material.