Unlocking the Treasure Trove: Leveraging Dry Coral Specimens for Museum Genomics

• Main Authors: Connelly, Michael T., Catapang, Mary Grace, Quattrini, Andrea M.
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Historical DNA; Museomics; Museum collections; UCEs; Life Sciences; Marine Biology; Museum Studies
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/biology-faculty-pubs/166; https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-024-02525-5
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

Natural history museums house the largest biodiversity collections in the world and represent an enormous repository of genetic information. Much of this information, however, has remained inaccessible until recently. Emerging technologies, such as techniques for isolation of historical DNA (hDNA) a...