Protocol:
- Recorded sample info and labeled 1.5 ml screw cap tubes with the following:
- Snipped 2-10 mg samples of each fish species (weighed the first one and approximated the rest), wiped blade with ethanol between each change of species
- Added 100 microliters of Extraction Solution and 25 microliters of Tissue Preparation to labeled tubes (solutions from Sigma REDExtract-N-Amp Tissue PCR Kit)
- Added samples to each tube
- Incorrectly incubated tubes at 95 degrees Celsius for 10 mins
- Removed tubes from heating block, allowed them to cool for 5 minutes
- Added 100 microliters of Neutralizing Solution from same kit
- Vortexed for 10 seconds
- Put samples on ice
- Made 10x dilution of gDNA- 18 microliters diH2O + 2 microliters of gDNA
- PCR Reagents for each tube (14 Reaction overall Master Mix)
- Note: Pipette was somewhat wonky
- PCR Quality Water – 6.4 µl
- REDExtract-N-Amp PCR rx mix – 10 µl
- Forward Primer – 11.2 µl
- Reverse Primer – 11.2µl
- added 2 µl Diluted Tissue Extract to each labeled PCR tube
- Put into thermocycler with following settings
- 94 C – 4 minutes (initial denaturation)
- 30 Cycles of
- 94 C for 30 sec (denaturing)
- 52 C for 40 sec (annealing)
- 72 C for 1 min (extension)
- 72 C hold for 10 min (final extension)
- 10 C hold indefinitely