Genomic Treasure Troves: Complete Genome Sequencing of Herbarium and Insect Museum Specimens

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 8; no. 7; p. e69189
• Main Authors: Staats, Martijn, Erkens, Roy H. J., van de Vossenberg, Bart, Wieringa, Jan J., Kraaijeveld, Ken, Stielow, Benjamin, Geml, József, Richardson, James E., Bakker, Freek T.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 29.07.2013; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Alcohol; Animals; Arabidopsis - genetics; Assembly; Biodiversity; Bioinformatics; Biological Specimen Banks; Biology; Cases (containers); Cell Nucleus - genetics; Data collection; Demographics; Deoxyribonucleic acid; DNA; DNA - genetics; DNA - isolation & purification; DNA Damage - genetics; DNA sequencing; Domestication; Endangered & extinct species; Fungi; Fungi - genetics; Gene sequencing; Genetic testing; Genome, Insect - genetics; Genome, Plant - genetics; Genomes; Genomics; Genotype; Insecta - genetics; Insects; Multiplexing; Museums; Natural history; Nucleotide sequence; Phylogeny; Plants - genetics; Population studies; Quality; Sequence Alignment; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Studies; Scotland; Netherlands; Edinburgh Scotland; United Kingdom > UK

Unlocking the vast genomic diversity stored in natural history collections would create unprecedented opportunities for genome-scale evolutionary, phylogenetic, domestication and population genomic studies. Many researchers have been discouraged from using historical specimens in molecular studies b...