Sequence capture of ultraconserved elements from bird museum specimens
John McCormack, Whitney L.E. Tsai, Brant C Faircloth
This study evaluates the effectiveness of sequence capture of ultraconserved elements (UCEs) in retrieving genetic data from old bird museum specimens, finding that contamination is more common in older samples and that SNP calling within UCEs improves phylogenetic accuracy.
bioRxiv · Jun 2, 2015Evolutionary Biology