From the article
Geneticists had previously sequenced the species' mitochondrial genome — a short stretch of DNA that is maternally inherited — using hairs plucked from a thylacine stored at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC2. In the latest study, a team led by developmental geneticist Andrew Pask of the University of Melbourne obtained the much longer nuclear genome, by sampling tissue from a one-month-old thylacine that had been found in its mother's pouch in 1909 and was preserved in alcohol.
The article includes a picture of the pup preserved in alcohol.
From the article
`Geneticists had previously sequenced the species' mitochondrial genome — a short stretch of DNA that is maternally inherited — using hairs plucked from a thylacine stored at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC2. In the latest study, a team led by developmental geneticist Andrew Pask of the University of Melbourne obtained the much longer nuclear genome, by sampling tissue from a one-month-old thylacine that had been found in its mother's pouch in 1909 and was preserved in alcohol.`
The article includes a picture of the pup preserved in alcohol.
They have the complete genome? I had thought they only had part. I can't wait until someone starts cloning them.
I think (maybe?) I heard about some mammoth dna being found somewhere also.
Maybe soon I can go to a zoo and see a Tasmanian tiger and a woolly mammoth.