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Regarding the yield: Do you see a reduction in yield/biomass, when extracting from fish with darker stripes? And do you check the TNA(DNA) concentration with a gel or the NanoDrop? I could imagine the pigment might influence the measurement of the latter, although I don’t know the absorption of eumelanin. Also, does the pigment visibly detach from the beads during elution?
Whether or not the residual pigment influences your downstream processing I can’t say, though.
Yield: I cannot say, as the fish with the darker stripes are substantially bigger at the stage I am sampling them at (because more developed). Hence, the more striped individuals give me a much more concentrated lysate when digesting the whole individual. I cannot digest only a certain volume or weight of fish and still ensure that I maintain any chosen skin (containing pigments) to flesh ratio.
As far as I am aware Eumelanin should strongly interfere with any nanodrop measurement but not dye based measurements such as is done when using Qubit.
Yes the pigments visibly detach of the beads during elution, but not the wash steps.
I have processed my samples further and I can now say that there is sufficient DNA left after PBAT. Which is/was the most important aspect. If the proportion is smaller than it would be for a pigment free sample, I have no way of telling. I guess I will just have to live with my extract looking rather questionable.
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