Mammoth 2.0: Will genome engineering resurrect extinct species?

Genome Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Shapiro, Beth ^a  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CASPASE 9; CRISPR ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; DNA;

AUROCHS; BIRD; BREEDING; CELL NUCLEUS TRANSPLANTATION; CHESTNUT; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; CONSERVATION BIOLOGY; DNA MODIFICATION; ECTOGENESIS; ELEPHANT; EXTINCT SPECIES; GENE LOCUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC ENGINEERING; GENOME; GENOME EDITING; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GOAT; HUMAN; MAMMOTH; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHENOTYPE; PIGEON; SPECIES EXTINCTION; TREE; ANIMAL; FOSSIL; GENETICS; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYLOGENY; RNA EDITING;

ANIMALS; ELEPHANTS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FOSSILS; GENOME; MAMMOTHS; PHYLOGENY; RNA EDITING;

EID: 84946716449     PISSN: 14747596     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13059-015-0800-4     Document Type: Note

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