Excess of genomic defects in a woolly mammoth on Wrangel island

Woolly mammoths (Mammuthus primigenius) populated Siberia, Beringia, and North America during the Pleistocene and early Holocene. Recent breakthroughs in ancient DNA sequencing have allowed for complete genome sequencing for two specimens of woolly mammoths (Palkopoulou et al. 2015). One mammoth spe...

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Main Authors: Rogers, Rebekah L., Slatkin, Montgomery
Format: Report
Language:unknown
Published: arXiv 2016
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1606.06336
https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06336