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A Noninvasive Hair Sampling Technique to Obtain High Quality DNA from Elusive Small Mammals
Published on: March 13, 2011
[A study of a brief protocol to extract DNA from hair]
1National Laboratories for Agrobiotechnology, China Agricaltural University, Beijing 100094, China. chunjiangzhao@hotmail.com
Yi Chuan = Hereditas
|January 11, 2005
Abstract:
Hair can be a valuable source of DNA for the noninvasive study of human and nonhuman populations. However,hairs contain extremely small quantities of DNA, making the method used to extract the DNA of paramount importance. In this study, four different methods for extracting DNA from hairs were compared and the most efficient one was determined. The method for extracting mtDNA from hair shifts was also discussed in the study.
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