Mobile DNA Elements In Woolly Mammoth Genome Give New Clues To Mammalian Evolution
Monday, June 8, 2009 - 21:21
in Biology & Nature
The woolly mammoth died out several thousand years ago, but the genetic material they left behind is yielding new clues about the evolution of mammals. Scientists have now analyzed the mammoth genome looking for mobile DNA elements, revealing new insights into how some of these elements arose in mammals and shaped the genome of an animal headed for extinction.
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