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Nucleic Acid extraction kits
DNA extraction
- Sponges - QIAamp® DNA Micro kit (QIAGEN)(Ruocco et al., 2021)
- Sponges –DNeasy® PowerSoil® Pro Kit (QIAGEN)(Ruocco et al., 2021)
- Human blood viruses - QIAAMP Ultra Sens Virus Kit (Qiagen)(Cebriá-Mendoza et al., 2021)
- Water samples - PowerSoil® DNA Isolation Kit (MoBio)(Martínez-Pérez et al., 2022)
- Saliva - QIAamp® DNA Mini kit (Qiagen)(Gao et al., 2020)
- Crushed fruit fly larvae - DNeasy PowerLyzer PowerSoil Kit-100 (Qiagen)(Majumder et al., 2020)
- Frog skin swab – Prepman Ultra (ThermoFisher)(Ellison et al., 2021)
- Skin swabs - PureLink® Genomic DNA Mini Kit (Life Technologies)(Kim et al., 2022)
- Skin swaps - Kaneka Easy DNA Extraction Kit version 2 (Kaneka Corp)(Ogai et al., 2022)
- Oral swaps - QIAamp DNA mini kit (Qiagen)(Chaudhari et al., 2020)
- Skin swaps - QIAamp blood and tissue DNA extraction kit (Qiagen)(Chaudhari et al., 2020)
- Oyster haemolymph - Qiagen DNeasy Blood and Tissue Kit (Qiagen)(Scanes et al., 2021)
- Molluscs - E.Z.N.A. Mollusc DNA (Omega Biotek)(Sousa et al., 2021)
- Melted ice cave water - MoBio PowerWater DNA Isolation kit (MoBio)(Mulec et al., 2021)
- BAL, oral rinse, tongue scraping, bronchoscope flush - DNeasy Blood and Tissue kit (Qiagen)(Goolam Mahomed et al., 2021)
- Lake sediment - PrestoTM Soil DNA Extraction Kit(Custodio et al., 2022)
- Oral Swabs - Maxwell RSC PureFood Pathogen Kit (Promega)(Kursa et al., 2021)
- Plant DNA - Mo Bio PowerSoil kit (Qiagen)(Satjarak et al., 2022)
- Gastric juice - DNeasy® PowerSoil Pro kit (Qiagen)(Park et al., 2022)
- Saliva - DNeasy® PowerSoil Pro kit (Qiagen)(Eun et al., 2021)
- Bacterial DNA - DNeasy PowerSoil Kit (QIAGEN)(Shetty et al., 2022)
- Soil - PowerSoil DNA Isolation Kit (Qiagen)(Hannula et al., 2021)
- Soil - FastDNA Spin kit for soil (MP Bio)(Zheng et al., 2022)
- Wastewater samples - Nucleo spin soil DNA kit (Macherey Nagel)(Morin et al., 2020)
- Saliva - OMNIgene ORAL OM-501 (Genotek)(Yahara et al., 2021)
- Viral DNA - QIAGEN DNeasy Blood and Tissue Kit (Qiagen)(Lee et al., 2022)
- Viral DNA & RNA - AllPrep DNA/RNA Mini kit (Qiagen)(Liang et al., 2020)
- Microbial DNA - Mo Bio PowerSoil kit (Qiagen)(Liang et al., 2020)
- Phage DNA - QIAamp - DNA stool kit (Qiagen)(Chehoud et al., 2016)
- Bacterial & Viral DNA - Isolate II Genomic DNA Kit (Bioline)(Goolam Mahomed et al., 2021)
- Fungal DNA - Maxwell® RSC PureFood GMO and Authentication Kit (Promega)(Zhang et al., 2021)
- Leaves - PureLink Genomic DNA (ThermoFisher)(Humphrey & Whiteman, 2020)
- Food – Power Food kit (Qiagen)- in house protocol provided by Michelle O’Donnell
- Mollusc tissues - Qiagen DNeasy Blood and Tissue Kit (Qiagen)- in house protocol provided by Justine Vandendorpe
- Yogurt - PowerSoil DNA Isolation Kit (MoBio)- in house protocol provided by Pamela Feretti
- Saliva - PowerSoil DNA Isolation Kit (MoBio)- in house protocol provided by Pamela Feretti
- Plasmid preparations: NucleoSpin Plasmid kit (Macherey-Nagel, Düren, DE)- in house protocol provided by Maja Magel
- Bile samples - ZymoBIOMICS DNA/RNA Miniprep Kit - in house protocol provided by Nicole Treichel
- mouse small intestine content - ZymoBIOMICS DNA/RNA Miniprep Kit - in house protocol provided by Nicole Treichel
- Bacterial DNA from cultures (automated) - GenFind v3 Kit (Beckman Coulter) - in house protocol provided by Nicole Treichel
- Bacterial DNA from low biomass (eg. FACS sorted) samlpes – mericon DNA Bacteria Kit (Qiagen)- in house protocol provided by Nicole Treichel
RNA extraction
- Mosquitos - TRIzol LS (Invitrogen) – purified with RNeasy MinElute Cleanup Kit (Qiagen)(Ali et al., 2021)
- Sea Water - RNeasy mini kit (Qiagen)(Martínez-Pérez et al., 2022)
- Antarctic ticks - MagMax mirVana™ Total RNA isolation Kit (ThermoFisher Scientific)(Willis et al., 2020)
- Soil - PowerMax soil DNA isolation kit (Mo Bio)(Xu et al., 2021)
- Cervical samples - Smarter stranded total RNA-seq kit v2—pico input mammalian (Takara Bio)(Arroyo Mühr et al., 2021)
- Viral DNA & RNA - AllPrep DNA/RNA Mini kit (Qiagen)(Liang et al., 2020)
- Viral RNA - QIAmp Viral RNA kit (Qiagen)(Goolam Mahomed et al., 2021)
- Cerebellum, hippocampus and visual cortex - Uneasy Plus Universal Mini Kit (Qiagen) - in house protocol provided by Justine Vandendorpe
- Bile samples - ZymoBIOMICS DNA/RNA Miniprep Kit - in house protocol provided by Nicole Treichel
- mouse small intestine content - ZymoBIOMICS DNA/RNA Miniprep Kit - in house protocol provided by Nicole Treichel
References
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- Satjarak, A., Golinski, G. K., Trest, M. T., & Graham, L. E. (2022). Microbiome and related structural features of Earth’s most archaic plant indicate early plant symbiosis attributes. Scientific Reports, 12(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-10186-z
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