Mammoth Genome Sequenced.(Brief Article)

Genomics and Proteomics, January, 2006 by Woods, Alisa

Alisa Woods, PhD

Researchers from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pa., have sequenced a portion of the woolly mammoth genome. Their results were reported in the December 20, 2005, online edition of Science . A second group of scientists from the Max Planck Institute, Leipzig, Germany, simultaneously published the complete woolly mammoth mitochondrial genome sequence in the December 18, 2005, online issue of Nature .

The North American researchers found a 98.55% sequence identity between the mammoth and the African elephant. According to Webb Miller, PhD, professor at Penn State University and author on the Science paper, "Our results dispel pessimism about determining the...

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