Functional Architecture of Deleterious Genetic Variants in the Genome of a Wrangel Island Mammoth

• Published in: Genome Biology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Fry, Erin, Kim, Sun K, Chigurapti, Sravanthi, Mika, Katelyn M, Ratan, Aakrosh, Dammermann, Alexander, Mitchell, Brian J, Miller, Webb, Lynch, Vincent J
• Other Authors: Baer, Charles
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2020
• Subjects: Wrangel Island
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evz279; http://academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-article-pdf/doi/10.1093/gbe/evz279/32353706/evz279.pdf; http://academic.oup.com/gbe/article-pdf/12/3/48/32970481/evz279.pdf

Abstract Woolly mammoths were among the most abundant cold-adapted species during the Pleistocene. Their once-large populations went extinct in two waves, an end-Pleistocene extinction of continental populations followed by the mid-Holocene extinction of relict populations on St. Paul Island ∼5,600...