The control sample from the E.Z.N.A. Insect DNA protocol.
Not much DNA from the pharaoh ants, but there was enough to run a PCR.
Thursday, April 23, 2015
On the Planet Genesis
In the week of April 23rd I was working on collecting ants from five locations on PC campus. I was happy to find five pharaoh ant colonies. I am pretty sure I looked like a crazy person scooping up ants into little eppendorf tubes with tweezers. I needed enough ants to have 25 extractions. I was planning on having five control extractions with E.Z.N.A. Insect DNA kit protocol and 20 others with the novel method. I happened to finish all the extractions in two days and ran a gel to make sure I had DNA. Below is a picture of the gel I ran with a couple of DNA samples.
The DNA samples from the novel method.
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