Nov 20 2008
An international team of scientists has reconstructed about two-thirds of the genome of the woolly mammoth using DNA extracted from balls of hair, the first time this has been accomplished for an extinct species.
Read more at Washington Post and in Nature’s Darwin special issue.
Nov 18 2008
Yesterday, Australian researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics (KanGO) announced that they have built a framework to assemble the genome of a model kangaroo, the tammar wallaby.
KanGO Director Prof. Jenny Graves stated:
A good map is crucial for finding our way around a new genome. It enables us to explore how the genome of mammals - including humans - is organized, how it functions, and how it evolved. Now the world can use information on kangaroo genes and sequences to explore how mammals develop and function.
