Re: [ECOLOG-L] dna from museum skins and pickled animals

malcolm McCallum wrote: Hi, how much of the genome can be obtained from museum skins and other kinds of preserved specimens? Can we get complete genomes or only fractions? I do realize a lot of factors play into this! I'm not an expert, but I would have thought we could get a full genome.

[ECOLOG-L] dna from museum skins and pickled animals

Hi, how much of the genome can be obtained from museum skins and other kinds of preserved specimens? Can we get complete genomes or only fractions? I do realize a lot of factors play into this! -- Malcolm L. McCallum Associate Professor of Biology Texas AM University-Texarkana Editor,