title: Mammoth 2.0: will genome engineering resurrect extinct species?
abstract: It is impossible to 'clone' species for which no living cells exist. Genome editing may therefore provide the only means to bring extinct species--or, more accurately, extinct traits--back to life.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and UCSC Genomics Institute, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, 95060, USA. bashapir@ucsc.edu.
authors.forename: Beth
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Shapiro
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004606:Elephants / Q000235:genetics; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D053476:Extinction, Biological; D005580:Fossils; D016678:Genome; D056665:Mammoths / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny; D017393:RNA Editing / Q000235:genetics*