Sequencing museum material

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Titel des Projekts:

Using target enrichment to exploit old museum material for phylogenomic research

ZFMK-Projektleitung:

Dr. Marianne Espeland

Org. Einordnung:

Lepidoptera, Statistische Phylogenetik und Phylogenomik, Zentrum für molekulare Biodiversitätsforschung (zmb)

Forschungsobjekt(e):

Lepidoptera, phylogenetics

Beschreibung

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.