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Utility of hair shafts from study skins for mitochondrial DNA analysis

N. Kurihara, Utility of hair shafts from study skins for mitochondrial DNA analysis, vol. 12, pp. 5396-5404, 2013.

The condition of mtDNA in hair shafts preserved in a museum was examined using 30 study skins of masked palm civets, Paguma larvata (Viverridae), collected between 1924 and 2011. Comparisons of extracts from fresh and burnt alum-fixed hair shafts showed that burnt alum, which is commonly used in taxidermy, had no harmful effect on the amount of total DNA and lengths of the mtDNA fragments.

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