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Sep 2026
Recovering mtDNA from long-term formalin-preserved museum arthropods: A pilot study
Background : Natural history collections can be a valuable source of genetic material for evolutionary research. However, numerous samples from zoological collections are fixed in formalin and may remain continuously exposed to formalin over long periods of time. Due to severe DNA degradation caused by formalin fixa...
Anne Mack, Svetlana Grützke, B. Krause-Kyora et al.
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