The Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change

is a research museum of the Leibniz Association

Sequencing museum material

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Project title: 
Using target enrichment to exploit old museum material for phylogenomic research
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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.

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Head of section
Curator
+49 228 9122-220
+49 228 9122-212
m.espeland [at] leibniz-zfmk.de