Complete Genomes Reveal Signatures of Demographic and Genetic Declines in the Woolly Mammoth

@article{Palkopoulou2015CompleteGR,
  title={Complete Genomes Reveal Signatures of Demographic and Genetic Declines in the Woolly Mammoth},
  author={Eleftheria Palkopoulou and Swapan Mallick and Pontus Skoglund and Jacob M. Enk and Nadin Rohland and Heng Li and Ayça Omrak and Sergey L. Vartanyan and Hendrik N. Poinar and Anders G{\"o}therstr{\"o}m and David Reich and Love Dal{\'e}n},
  journal={Current Biology},
  year={2015},
  volume={25},
  pages={1395-1400}
}
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