Woolly mammoth genomes offer insight into their history and extinction
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 11:30
in Biology & Nature
Before the world's last woolly mammoth took its final breath, the iconic animals had already suffered from a considerable loss of genetic diversity. These findings, based on a comparison of the first complete genome sequences isolated from two ancient mammoth specimens, are reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on April 23.