TY - JFULL AU - R. Manaffar and R. Maleki and S. Zare and N. Agh and S. Soltanian and B. Sehatnia and P. Sorgeloos and P. Bossier and G. Van Stappen PY - 2010/2/ TI - A New Method for Rapid DNA Extraction from Artemia (Branchiopoda, Crustacea) T2 - International Journal of Bioengineering and Life Sciences SP - 101 EP - 106 VL - 4 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/3270 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 37, 2010 N2 - Artemia is one of the most conspicuous invertebrates associated with aquaculture. It can be considered as a model organism, offering numerous advantages for comprehensive and multidisciplinary studies using morphologic or molecular methods. Since DNA extraction is an important step of any molecular experiment, a new and a rapid method of DNA extraction from adult Artemia was described in this study. Besides, the efficiency of this technique was compared with two widely used alternative techniques, namely Chelex® 100 resin and SDS-chloroform methods. Data analysis revealed that the new method is the easiest and the most cost effective method among the other methods which allows a quick and efficient extraction of DNA from the adult animal. ER -