<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear colleagues,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m curious to know if anyone has experience, either positively or negatively, with extracting DNA from Giemsa-stained bird blood smears? If so, would you kindly share references or protocols? These would ultimately be designated for whole-genome sequencing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thank you,</div><div class="">Mike</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">
<meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 13px;" class="">--<br class=""><b class="">Michael J. Andersen, Ph.D. (he, him, his)</b><br class="">Associate Professor, Department of Biology<br class="">Curator of Genomic Resources & Associate Curator of Birds,<br class="">Museum of Southwestern Biology<br class="">University of New Mexico<br class="">Albuquerque, NM 87131<br class="">phone: 505.277.8017<br class=""><a href="mailto:mjandersen@unm.edu" class="">mjandersen@unm.edu</a><br class=""><a href="http://www.andersenlabunm.org" class="">http://www.andersenlabunm.org</a></div></div></div></div></div>
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