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Published online 24 July 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070723-3
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Mastodon DNA sequenced
Ancient tooth reveals elephants' family tree.
The mastodon, an extinct relative of modern elephants, has become the latest prehistoric animal to have its DNA sequenced.
Using a fossilized tooth, Michael Hofreiter of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and his colleagues sequenced all the DNA of the mastodon's mitochondrion, an energy-generating structure in the cell with its own small genome.
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