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Comparative genomics shows that the mammoth genome matches 99% of the elephant genome, so researchers working in the field aim to engineer an elephant with mammoth genes, that code for the external appearance and traits of a mammoth. [5] The outcome would be an elephant-mammoth hybrid with no more than 1% mammoth genes. [5]
The company plans on sequencing both elephant and mammoth samples in order to identify key genes in both species to promote population diversification. By doing so, Colossal hopes to prevent any rogue mutations within the hybrid herd. [22] Colossal set a goal for the company to grow a woolly mammoth calf by 2028. [38]
The analysis showed that the woolly mammoth and the African elephant are 98.55% to 99.40% identical. [26] The team mapped the woolly mammoth's nuclear genome sequence by extracting DNA from the hair follicles of both a 20,000-year-old mammoth retrieved from permafrost and another that died 60,000 years ago. [27]
Douglas McCauley, ecologist and conservation biologist, previously told Popular Mechanics that a hybrid elephant with mammoth DNA may have the physical characteristics of a woolly mammoth if ...
The species is the closest living relative to the woolly mammoth. The now modified cells could eventually be used to help the hybrid mammoth grow a woolly coat and develop other traits needed to ...
The woolly mammoth project, for instance, has sequenced the genomes of both the Asian elephant and the African elephant; has developed induced pluripotent stem cells with the ability to ...
The second method would involve artificially inseminating an elephant egg cell with preserved sperm of the mammoth. The resulting offspring would be a hybrid of the mammoth and its closest living relative the Asian elephant. After several generations of cross-breeding these hybrids, an almost pure woolly mammoth could be produced.
Researchers have completed a comprehensive analysis of the woolly mammoth's genome and have pinpointed many specific ways in which it differs from that of their elephant relatives. Those include ...