Mammoth genome sequence may explain extinction
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 14:14
in Biology & Nature
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Researchers have sequenced the gene map of a long-extinct, mummified woolly mammoth, using DNA taken from its hair.
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