Cooper Alan
Australian Centre for Ancient DNA, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
PLoS Biol. 2006 Mar;4(3):e78. doi: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0040078. Epub 2006 Feb 7.
Three recently published studies that independently sequenced the mitochondrial genomes of the long extinct mammoth are examined here, along with the state-of-the-art technologies used to study ancient DNA.