Article
Unlocking the vault: next-generation museum population genomics.
Molecular ecology - 1 Dec 2013
Bi Ke, Linderoth Tyler, Vanderpool Dan, Good Jeffrey M, Nielsen Rasmus, Moritz Craig
Abstract excerpt
Natural history museum collections provide unique resources for understanding how species respond to environmental change, including the abrupt, anthropogenic climate change of the past century. Ideally, researchers would conduct genome-scale screening of museum specimens to explore the evolutionary consequences of environmental changes, but to date such analyses have been severely limited by the numerous...
Topics
- Animals
- California
- Climate Change
- DNA Damage
- Exons
- Gene Frequency
- Genetics, Population
- Genomics
- Genotype
- Museums
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Sciuridae
- Sequence Analysis, DNA
- Transcriptome