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Mammoths

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Containing group: Elephantidae

Other Names for Mammuthus

References

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Greenwood, A. D., C. Capelli, G. Possnert, and S. Pääbo. 1999. Nuclear DNA sequences from late Pleistocene megafauna. Molecular Biology and Evolution 16:1466-1473.

Hagelberg, E., M. G. Thomas, C. E. Cook, A. V. Sher, G. F. Baryshnikov, and A. M. Lister. 1994. DNA from ancient mammoth bones. Nature 370:333-334.

Haynes, G. 1991. Mammoths, Mastodonts, and Elephants: Biology, Behavior, and the Fossil Record. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge and New York.

Lister, A. and P. Bahn. 1994. Mammoths. MacMillan, London.

Miller, W., D. I. Drautz, A. Ratan, B. Pusey, J. Qi, A. M. Lesk, L. P. Tomsho, M. D. Packard, F. Zhao, A. Sher, A. Tikhonov, B. Raney, N. Patterson, K. Lindblad-Toh, E. S. Lander, J. R. Knight, G. P. Irzyk, K. M. Fredrikson, T. T. Harkins, S. Sheridan, T. Pringle, and S. C. Schuster. 2008. Sequencing the nuclear genome of the extinct woolly mammoth. Nature 456:387-390.

Noro, M., R. Masuda, I. A. Dubrovo, M. C. Yoshida, and M. Kato. 1998. Molecular phylogenetic inference of the woolly mammoth Mammuthus primigenius, based on complete sequences of mitochondrial cytochrome b and 12S ribosomal RNA genes. Journal of Molecular Evolution 46:314-326.

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Rogaev, E. I., Y. K. Moliaka, B. A. Malyarchuk, F. A. Kondrashov, M. V. Derenko, I. Chumakov, and A. P. Grigorenko. 2006. Complete mitochondrial genome and phylogeny of Pleistocene mammoth Mammuthus primigenius. PLoS Biol 4:e73.

Shoshani, J. 1998. Understanding proboscidean evolution: a formidable task. Trends in Ecology & Evolution 13:480-487.

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Scientific Name Mammuthus primigenius
Location Royal BC Museum, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Specimen Condition Model
Source Wooly Mammoth
Source Collection Flickr
Image Use creative commons This media file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License - Version 2.0.
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