DNA Provides Clue to Why Woolly Mammoth Died Out

DNA Provides Clue to Why Woolly Mammoth Died Out

DNA clues to why woolly mammoth died out By Helen Briggs,
BBC News, March 2, 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39142941

The last, lonely woolly mammoths faced a 'genomic meltdown'
By Michael Price, Science News, March 2, 2017
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/last-lonely-woolly-mammoths-were-genetically-screwed
DNA clues to why woolly mammoth died out By Helen Briggs,
BBC News, March 2, 2017
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39142941

The last, lonely woolly mammoths faced a 'genomic meltdown'
By Michael Price, Science News, March 2, 2017
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/last-lonely-woolly-mammoths-were-genetically-screwed

The Woolly Mammoth's Last Stand, New York Times
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39142941

The paper is:

Rogers, R. L., and M. Slatkin, 2017, Excess of genomic
defects in a woolly mammoth on Wrangel island.
PLOS Genetics. Published: March 2, 2017, open access.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.100660
http://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1006601

The Woolly Mammoth's Last Stand, New York Times
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39142941

Yours,

Paul H.