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Temporal genetic change in the last remaining population of woolly mammoth.
Proceedings. Biological sciences - 7 Aug 2010
Nyström Veronica, Dalén Love, Vartanyan Sergey, Lidén Kerstin, Ryman Nils, Angerbjörn Anders
Abstract excerpt
During the Late Pleistocene, the woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) experienced a series of local extinctions generally attributed to human predation or environmental change. Some small and isolated populations did however survive far into the Holocene. Here, we investigated the genetic consequences of the isolation of the last remaining mammoth population on Wrangel Island. We analysed 741 bp of the...
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