From Sim Aberson on Facebook, from BBC Science, “Mammoth genome sequence completed” by Pallab Ghosh, beginning:
An international team of scientists has sequenced the complete genome of the woolly mammoth.
A US team is already attempting to study the animals’ characteristics by inserting mammoth genes into elephant stem cells.
They want to find out what made the mammoths different from their modern relatives and how their adaptations helped them survive the ice ages.
The new genome study has been published in the journal Current Biology.
The story will no doubt be reported in all the sites with science news for the general reader.
And now, the news for this blog: I’ve created a Page with a list of mammoth postings on this blog.
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