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ANIMAL INFORMATION: Please note, this part of mongabay has been updated |
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ThylacineEducational resources on ThylacineThylacine or Thylacinus cynocephalus is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Extinct . IUCN Profile of the Thylacine Thylacine Sequencing Project at PSU The thylacine, also known as the Tasmanian tiger, is an extinct marsupial that looked much like a large dog and had stripes like a tiger. Thylacines have been a major focus for thylacine.psu.edu Thylacine Sequencing Project at PSU A 1902 painting by Joseph Gleeson depicts a thylacine mother with her cubs (photo courtesy of Smithsonian Archives). www.thylacine.psu.edu/thylacine.html Thylacine Sequencing Project at PSU At the close of the nineteenth century, no American zoo had found itself able to display the largest marsupial predator of modern times, the thylacine (Thylacinus cynocephalus thylacine.psu.edu/history.html Thylacine Sequencing Project at PSU Our initial report about thylacine DNA addresses the following questions: Are hair shafts a good source of DNA for sequencing museum specimens? www.thylacine.psu.edu/research.html Thylacine Sequencing Project at PSU Today's natural history museums are true treasure troves, not only for curious visitors, but also for molecular biologists. Many of the samples used for our projects come from www.thylacine.psu.edu/museomics.html Thylacine Sequencing Project at PSU We have produced the first accurate data for the thylacine mitochondrial genome. This will be a key ingredient for mapping changes in the thylacine population structure, starting www.thylacine.psu.edu/understand.html Thylacine Sequencing Project at PSU Plans to clone the thylacine were widely discussed in the media, starting around 1999; see first story, second story, and third story. However attempts by the Australian museum to www.thylacine.psu.edu/restore.html Thylacine Sequencing Project at PSU Our method for generating the sequence data was very similar to how we sequenced woolly mammoth. One critical difference was that with the mammoth we started with a large ball of www.thylacine.psu.edu/techniques.html The mitochondrial genome sequence of the Tasmanian tiger ( Thylacinus For the thylacine sample 2, we divided one third of the total number of reads from the sample by the number of putative thylacine mtDNA reads, based on our estimation that roughly thylacine.psu.edu/supplement.pdf Thylacine Sequencing Project at PSU The Swedish thylacine specimen in ethanol is NRM 566599 in the mammal collection of the Swedish Museum of Natural History (Stockholm), adult female, dated 30 April 1893 and www.thylacine.psu.edu/thyla2.html
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