Complete mitochondrial genome and phylogeny of Pleistocene mammoth Mammuthus primigenius.

Phylogenetic relationships between the extinct woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), and the Asian (Elephas maximus) and African savanna (Loxodonta africana) elephants remain unresolved. Here, we report the sequence of the complete mitochondrial genome (16,842 base pairs) of a woolly mammoth extra...

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Main Authors: Evgeny I Rogaev, Yuri K Moliaka, Boris A Malyarchuk, Fyodor A Kondrashov, Miroslava V Derenko, Ilya Chumakov, Anastasia P Grigorenko
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2006-03-01
Series:PLoS Biology
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC1360101?pdf=render