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How the Mammoth Got its Wool: Genetic changes are identified that helped the woolly mammoth survive in the Arctic — Eberly College of Science
In a study published in Cell Reports on July 2, 2015, researchers determined the whole-genome sequence of two woolly mammoths and three modern Asian elephants, predicted the function of genetic changes found only in the mammoths, and then experimentally validated the function of a woolly mammoth gene reconstructed in the lab.
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