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Comment author: morganism 02 October 2016 09:52:45PM 0 points [-]

Not really related, but Interesting paper on DNA degradation rates in fossils. They do discuss optimal temp for storage at -5c.

"In an attempt to document a correlation between sample age and DNA preservation, we use a quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) design to measure relative copy numbers of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) fragments from bones of the extinct New Zealand moa "

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/279/1748/4724