Evolution: Untangling the woolly mammoth

Alfred L Roca

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.026

Evolution: Untangling the woolly mammoth

Curr Biol. 2023 Aug 21;33(16):R870-R872. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.026.

Author

Alfred L Roca¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Animal Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL 61801, USA. Electronic address: roca@illinois.edu.

PMID: 37607485
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2023.07.026

Abstract

Twenty-two woolly mammoth genomes have been compared to those of living elephants, identifying genes under strong evolutionary pressure in mammoths, including genes associated with curly, wiry, thick, bushy, coarse, uncombable and (of course) woolly hair.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Biological Evolution
Mammoths* / genetics