Interbreeding Is Always Interesting

Jun 01, 2011

In a paper published online in advance in Genome Biololgy this week, a team led by investigators at McMaster University in Ontario report the first complete mitochondrial genome for a classic Columbian mammoth, which it says hints that the species may have interbred with North American woolly mammoths.

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