Sentence examples for historic specimen from inspiring English sources
A newly prepared, historic specimen provides novel insights into the morphology of the girdles and vertebral column of this taxon and the opportunity to reassess its phylogenetic position.
His conviction that art looks best in frames of the same period led to the acquisition of many historic specimens.
They hold some of the most priceless resources of the botanical garden, historic specimens that facilitate DNA research to classify plant relationships.
A number of rare and historic specimens have been lost, including the largest tree in Essex.
The SBE protocol was faster, cheaper and more accurate than sequencing multiple clones for SNP detection in historic specimens.
The genotypes were inferred from this pedigree phenotypic data in order to determine the overall accuracy of the SBE technique in historic specimens.
Especially the DNeasy plant extraction kit (DNeasy Plant Mini Kit, Qiagen) in particular has proved to be the best for the extraction of DNA from historic specimens [8], [22].
The historic DNA samples were obtained from 98 historical specimens collected in Oscoda County, 45 that were collected during 1903 1912 and 53 that were collected during 1929 1955.
However, as pointed out by Nekaris and colleagues, this assessment was based on field research data and historic museum specimens, and cannot be considered reliable, as "loris 'presence' is usually not determined first-hand, and it also cannot be presumed that lorises still occur in areas from where they were once collected".
We conclude that DNA extraction and the choice of DNA polymerase are crucial factors for successful PCR amplification from small samples of historic herbarium specimens.
Considering that it was only possible to test a fraction of the plethora of DNA polymerases that are currently promoted by numerous companies, it is obvious that the full potential of DNA polymerase comparison for amplification from historic herbarium specimens is far from being fully exploited.
