Helpful Papers

Below are some helpful papers for folks interested in learning more about the field and its techniques:

Introductions to the Field of Museomics

• Mining museums for historical DNA: advances and challenges in museomics (Raxworthy, Christopher J. et al., 2021) Trends in Ecology & Evolution, Volume 36, Issue 11, 1049 - 1060

Protocol Developments

• Towards Large-Scale Museomics Projects: A Cost-Effective and High-Throughput Extraction Method for Obtaining Historical DNA From Museum Insect Specimens (Holmquist et al., 2025) Molecular Ecology Resources, Volume25, Issue 8, November 2025, e14117

• Expedited assessment of terrestrial arthropod diversity by coupling Malaise traps with DNA barcoding (deWaard et al., 2018) Canadian Science Publishing, Volume 62, Number 3, March 2019