Sentence examples for mammoth samples from inspiring English sources

"We're getting an unprecedented amount of access to mammoth samples through this collaboration," said Insung Hwang, a geneticist at Sooam.

Yokohama mammoth samples have been sent to the private laboratory of the disgraced South Korean cloning expert Hwang who-suk, who is co-operating with Russian scientists with the specific aim of recreating mammoths.

The fact that he has confessed to buying mammoth samples from the Russian mafia does not help to instil confidence.

"To our surprise, within a tropical country like Cambodia, we found mammoth samples within the ivory trinkets that are being sold," said Dr Ball.

While this figure is lower than that reported for ancient material retrieved from permafrost-preserved mammoth samples [32], [47], it is substantially higher when compared to other palaeogenetic studies where the proportion of endogenous sequences was estimated at between ∼0.3%–6.0% [48], [49], [50], [51].

GB provided mammoth samples and morphological information.

In a mammoth sample from the Artic Circle [5], this ratio was 32∶1, and the human contaminants up to 1.4% of the total sequences.

In the first extraction of our aDNA trial, a mammoth sample was used as positive control, which constitutes a suitable control because a previous study [ 45] has shown that it does contain mammoth DNA, it does not contain modern DNA and its sequence clearly differs from that of sheep.

But Poinar says that regardless of what the future holds, he will never forget his mammoth-sampling summers.

Poinar and colleagues performed a metagenomic study on a mammoth bone sample using the first version of the 454 sequencer and produced 302 692 sequence reads with a mean length of 95 bp, for a total of nearly 30.10 bases.

While there, Krause helped develop a biological method to read large pieces of ancient DNA, sequence the complete mitochondrial genome of the mammoth from fossil samples, and place it in the context of evolution.