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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Many senior but dead Royal Naval officers were pickled in rum for the trip home, and many arrived in bad shape as the lower ranks had surreptitiously siphoned it off and replaced it with water. I believe there was actually
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You can preserve things in almost any strong liquor. Historically, rum was often used and somewhat more famously, Admiral Lord Nelson was preserved in brandy after he was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. I have used aguardiente for preserveration
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Particularly for DNA samples, buy the purest, strongest alcohol you can. Everclear sold in the US is good. Depending on which state you buy it in, it may be as high as 190 proof (95%), 151 proof (75.5%), or 120 proof (670%). As far as I have been able to determine,
it does not have any additives to it (it is distilled from grain). Avoid anything with coloring in it and gin (which is loaded with botanical ingredients) if possible. If you can't get Everclear, get a grain-based vodka without any flavoring in it. If using
low proof (below 190) with a low ratio of fluid-to-tissue, I recommend changing for fresh liquor after 24 hr as it will be diluted by the water extracted from the tissues.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Fri, Apr 19, 2019 at 7:51 PM Peter H Wimberger <<a href="mailto:pwimberger@pugetsound.edu" id="LPlnk275096" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">pwimberger@pugetsound.edu</a>> wrote:<br>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:rgb(31,73,125)">I agree with Dean. Have used absinthe for mussels as well – it was expensive, but I was in a pinch, and it was the highest proof around. Transferred
to 95% EtOH when back in the lab after a few days and DNA extraction, PCR and sequencing worked fine. Absinthe arguably should be worse for the DNA than Everclear, but it worked.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt; font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Nhcoll-l [mailto:<a href="mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu" target="_blank" id="LPlnk117323" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dean Pentcheff<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 19, 2019 11:50 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nick Cairns <<a href="mailto:nacairns@gmail.com" target="_blank" id="LPlnk252395" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">nacairns@gmail.com</a>>;
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">We have had excellent results on Sanger sequencing (haven't tried genomic) using Everclear (high-proof drinking alcohol). Specimens were preserved in Everclear, then transferred to 95% ethanol a few days later. These were small freshwater
crustaceans (aquatic isopods).<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">I'd be more inclined to go towards drinkable alcohol rather than denatured alcohol — if it's safe for human consumption, there probably isn't too much bioactive chemistry going on (other than the ethanol itself). <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">On Thu, Apr 18, 2019 at 2:04 PM Nick Cairns <<a href="mailto:nacairns@gmail.com" target="_blank" id="LPlnk823661" class="OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">nacairns@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">I'm seeking guidance on reagents. I'm trying to collect chorus frogs from across western Canada (whole and toe clips). These samples will be likely be extracted using phenol/chloroform then ethanol (EtOH) precipitation to tidy them up.
Downstream they'll be used for mtDNA (Sanger) and genomic (ddRAD) protocols. The issue is, I am currently in rural Saskatchewan and only have denatured EtOH (Fisherbrand Histoprep 95%) available to me. I understand that the additives in some denatured EtOH
can cause issues downstream but has anyone ever used it for short term storage then replaced it later with
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<p class="x_MsoNormal">Thank you,<u></u><u></u></p>
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