{"id":4075,"date":"2015-04-23T19:36:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T00:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=4075"},"modified":"2015-04-29T11:03:16","modified_gmt":"2015-04-29T16:03:16","slug":"discovering-the-hidden-secrets-of-the-woolly-mammoth-genome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/discovering-the-hidden-secrets-of-the-woolly-mammoth-genome\/","title":{"rendered":"Discovering the hidden secrets of the woolly mammoth genome<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4076\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1024px-Woolly_mammoth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4076\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4076\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1024px-Woolly_mammoth-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"(Image credit:Flying Puffin, model at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria (Canada)).\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1024px-Woolly_mammoth-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1024px-Woolly_mammoth.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Image credit:<a href=\"http:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Woolly_mammoth.jpg\">Flying Puffin, model at the Royal BC Museum in Victoria (Canada)<\/a>).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Complete genome sequencing of two woolly mammoth (<em>Mammuthus primigenius<\/em>) specimens that lived approximately 4,300 and 44,800 years ago has been completed by researchers. The younger specimen was a member \u00a0of one of last surviving mammoth populations.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers concluded that the woolly mammoth experienced a temporary population decline before recovering. This resulted in a reduction of genetic diversity within the species before it became extinct.<\/p>\n<p>The two specimens were found in Russia on Wrangel Island (4,300 year-old specimen) and northeastern Siberia (44,800 year-old specimen).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cell.com\/current-biology\/abstract\/S0960-9822%2815%2900420-0\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Original research paper<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in <em>Current Biology\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>April 23<\/strong><span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_453723367\"><span class=\"aQJ\"><strong>, 2015<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Eleftheria Palkopoulou, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden<\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Love Dale, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden<\/h4>\n<h4 dir=\"ltr\">Jacob Enk, McMaster University, Ontario<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complete genome sequencing of two woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) specimens that lived approximately 4,300 and 44,800 years ago has been completed by researchers. The younger specimen was a member \u00a0of one of last surviving mammoth populations. The researchers concluded that the woolly mammoth experienced a temporary population decline before recovering. This resulted in a reduction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[170,171,265,909],"class_list":["post-4075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-biodiversity","tag-ecology","tag-fossil","tag-genetics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/1024px-Woolly_mammoth.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-13J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4075"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4075\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}