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    • Austin Long
    • Andrei Sher
    • Sergey Vartanyan
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 369, P: 364

  • The blind mole rat (BMR), Spalax galili, is perfectly adapted to life underground. Here, the authors sequence the BMR genome and transcriptome and highlight genomic features that may have played a role in adaptation to extreme underground stressors, such as darkness hypercapnia and hypoxia.

    • Xiaodong Fang
    • Eviatar Nevo
    • Jun Wang
    Research
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 5, P: 1-11

  • This is the first report of the sequencing of the nearly complete nuclear genome of an extinct animal, the woolly mammoth. 4.1 billion bases of high quality sequence from several mammoth species are reported, including 3.3 billion bases from the woolly mammoth. Nuclear-genome sequencing of extinct species and its comparison with the extant relatives (in this case African elephant) provide insights into elephantid evolution and population differences.

    • Webb Miller
    • Daniela I. Drautz
    • Stephan C. Schuster
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 456, P: 387-390

  • By analysing plant and nematode DNA from sites all around the Arctic, it is shown that vegetation before about 10,000 years ago contained more forbs (non-graminoid herbaceous vascular plants) than previously believed, which changes our understanding about the functioning of the diverse northern ecosystem that existed at this time.

    • Eske Willerslev
    • John Davison
    • Pierre Taberlet
    Research
    Nature
    Volume: 506, P: 47-51

  • The first opening of the Bering Strait would have had profound biogeographical and climatic consequences. The date of that event is now firmly pushed further back in time.

    • Andrei Sher
    News & Views
    Nature
    Volume: 397, P: 103-104