Bird nests as botanical time capsules: DNA barcoding identifies the contents of contemporary and historical nests.

Bird nests in natural history collections are an abundant yet vastly underutilized source of genetic information. We sequenced the nuclear ribosomal internal transcribed spacer to identify plant species used as nest material in two contemporary (2003 and 2018) and two historical (both 1915) nest spe...

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Main Authors: Alex Rinkert, Tracy M Misiewicz, Benjamin E Carter, Aleezah Salmaan, Justen B Whittall
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/7475d690bb584de6b1187eb3a903487b
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