Parboiled Preservation of Odonata Nymphs for DNA Related Research

Odonate nymph preservation is less standardized and more prone to long-term preservation issues than adults.Two preemptive measures that can be taken to help prevent the high level of decay often seen in older nymph specimens are 1.Ethanol injection 2. Parboiling.Parboiling offers the long-term advantage of better retaining the morphology, which is a great advantage for future taxonomic projects.Here we found that parboiling is as good for preserving DNA as ethanol injection.