The flickering genes of the last mammoths

• Published in: Molecular Ecology
• Main Author: THOMAS, M. G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2012
• Subjects: Arctic Ocean; Chukotka; permafrost; Wrangel Island; Siberia
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-294x.2012.05594.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1365-294X.2012.05594.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1365-294X.2012.05594.x

Woolly mammoths, Mammuthus primigenius , are arguably the most iconic of the extinct Pleistocene megafauna, and an abundance of large permafrost‐embedded bone and ivory material ( Fig. 1 ) means they were also among the first to yield credible DNA sequences ( Hagelberg et al. 1994 Hoss et al. 1994 )...