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Development and Refinement of Microbial DNA Extraction Protocol from Bovine Milk
Cook, R.; Lima, J.; Dewhurst, R. J.; Huws, S. A.; Creevey, C. J.; Ferguson, H. J.
2026-05-01
molecular biology
10.64898/2026.04.30.721090
bioRxiv
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Milk is a challenging matrix to extract sufficient microbial DNA from for downstream analysis. This study assessed fourteen DNA extraction protocols for their DNA outputs. An adaptation of the QIAGEN DNeasy PowerSoil kit, which increased initial sample volume and maintained all volume of lysate following bead beating proved most effective.
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