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Historical Bibliography Updated: October 9, 2019

DNA sequences from the quagga, an extinct member of the horse family.

Publication Details

Nature, 312, 282-284.. London, 1984 CE.

Probably the first study of DNA isolated from ancient specimens, or ancient DNA (aDNA). By Higuchi, Barbara Bowman, and Mary Freiberger from the Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley and Ryder and Allan C. Wilson of the Research Department, San Diego Zoo.

Catalog MetadataReference Information
Entry Number#7428
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/9600
Author Bio Linkembryo.asu.edu ↗
External URLdna-sequences-from-the-quagga-an-extinct-member-of-the-horse-family

Geographic Context

Publication place: London

Mentioned in annotation: San Diego, CA; Berkeley, CA