The Year of the Mammoth

2006/01/31 by Alan Cooper · 11 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Ancient DNA #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Biology #Demography #Evolutionary biology #Forensic and Genetic Research #Gene #Genetics #Genome #Mammoth #Mitochondrial DNA #Paleontology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0040078

published in PLoS Biology 4(3), e78 (Public Library of Science)

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Abstract

Three recently published studies that independently sequenced the mitochondrial genomes of the long extinct mammoth are examined here, along with the state-of-the-art technologies used to study ancient DNA.

Citations

• Review Paper. Ancient DNA
• Independent origins of New Zealand moas and kiwis.
• DNA sequences from the quagga, an extinct member of the horse family
• Dynamics of Pleistocene Population Extinctions in Beringian Brown Bears
• Ancient bone DNA amplified
• Genome sequencing in microfabricated high-density picolitre reactors
• Instability and decay of the primary structure of DNA
• Multiplex amplification of the mammoth mitochondrial genome and the evolution of Elephantidae
• Complete mitochondrial genome sequences of two extinct moas clarify ratite evolution

Cited by

• Woolly mammoth [wikipedia]