Thanks David.  I thought you would be the best person to ask.

On Thu, 3 Feb 2011 17:54:15 -0500 David Campbell <[log in to unmask]>
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> Hair and feathers are hollow, having had living tissue on the
> inside.
> They thus tend to have more DNA than shell and periostracum.  Some
> success at amplifying DNA from shells after about a year
> post-mortem
> has been reported.
>
> The other challenge is that a lot of data are available, including
> complete sequences, for mammals and birds, but we don't have any
> well-documented and formally published mollusk nuclear genomes yet,
> so
> we don't have as good a grasp on exactly what sequences to try for
> on
> a potentially interesting old shell or operc.
>
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Allen Aigen <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
> > Since hair and feathers have both been shown to be useful for DNA
> > studies, I wonder if anyone has tried similar techniques on
> opercula or
> > periostraca or ligaments?
> >
> > Allen Aigen
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