• The treasure vault can be opened: large-scale genome skimming works well using herbarium and silica gel dried material 

      Alsos, Inger Greve; Lavergne, Sebastien; Merkel, Marie Kristine Føreid; Boleda, Marti; Lammers, Youri; Alberti, Adriana; Pouchon, Charles; Denoeud, France; Pitelkova, Iva; Pușcaș, Mihai; Roquet, Cristina; Hurdu, Bogdan-Iuliu; Thuiller, Wilfried; Zimmermann, Niklaus E.; Hollingsworth, Peter M.; Coissac, Eric (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-04-01)
      Genome skimming has the potential for generating large data sets for DNA barcoding and wider biodiversity genomic studies, particularly via the assembly and annotation of full chloroplast (cpDNA) and nuclear ribosomal DNA (nrDNA) sequences. We compare the success of genome skims of 2051 herbarium specimens from Norway/Polar regions with 4604 freshly collected, silica gel dried specimens mainly from ...