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Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the genomic history of mammoths.
Nature - 1 Mar 2021
van der Valk Tom, Pečnerová Patrícia, Díez-Del-Molino David, Bergström Anders, Oppenheimer Jonas, Hartmann Stefanie, Xenikoudakis Georgios, Thomas Jessica A, Dehasque Marianne, Sağlıcan Ekin, Fidan Fatma Rabia, Barnes Ian, Liu Shanlin, Somel Mehmet, Heintzman Peter D, Nikolskiy Pavel, Shapiro Beth, Skoglund Pontus, Hofreiter Michael, Lister Adrian M, Götherström Anders, Dalén Love
Abstract excerpt
Temporal genomic data hold great potential for studying evolutionary processes such as speciation. However, sampling across speciation events would, in many cases, require genomic time series that stretch well back into the Early Pleistocene subepoch. Although theoretical models suggest that DNA should survive on this timescale1, the oldest genomic data recovered so far are from a horse specimen dated to...
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