Excess of genomic defects in a woolly mammoth on Wrangel island.

Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) populated Siberia, Beringia, and North America during the Pleistocene and early Holocene. Recent breakthroughs in ancient DNA sequencing have allowed for complete genome sequencing for two specimens of woolly mammoths (Palkopoulou et al. 2015). One mammoth spe...

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Main Authors: Rebekah L Rogers, Montgomery Slatkin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-03-01
Series:PLoS Genetics
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5333797?pdf=render