DMNH-12581
We used sequence capture of ultraconserved elements (UCEs) to collect data from bird museum specimens as old as 120 years. We prepped libraries of randomly-sheared genomic DNA extracted from toepads, and we used targeted enrichment of approximately 5,000 UCE loci (Faircloth et al. 2012) to reduce the genome of 27 Western Scrub-Jays (Aphelocoma sp.) representing three evolutionary lineages.