Stability of DNA in a dry or dessicated insect?

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Paul Rutland

I have amplified plasmodium and human dna which is thousands of years old and if kept dry I would expect dna to be amplifiable for hundreds of thousands of years. amplifiable fragments tend to get shorter with increasing age but many lifeforms frozen in ice or dessicated in deserts show astonishing ability to survive when conditions change again

Abhijeet Singh

I agree with Paul.

Just wanted to add that in the dry and or old samples its the isolation of the DNA which is the biggest challenge, and not the DNA itself, to be used for amplification of other molecular analysis.