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Subject:
Methods of preservation
From:
David Campbell <[log in to unmask]>
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Conchologists of America List <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Fri, 13 Mar 1998 12:07:56 -0400
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If you want your specimen to be of possible use for DNA studies, putting
the live animal into as strong an ethanol solution as is available is
probably the best approach.  However, this does not preserve the anatomy as
well.  Isopropyl does not work well for preserving DNA.
 
David C.
 
"Old Seashells"
Department of Geology
CB 3315 Mitchell Hall
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill NC 27599-3315
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"He had discovered an unknown bivalve, forming a new genus"-E. A. Poe, The
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