Biologic rhythms derived from Siberian mammoths' hairs.

Hair is preserved for millennia in permafrost; it enshrines a record of biologic rhythms and offers a glimpse at chronobiology as it was in extinct animals. Here we compare biologic rhythms gleaned from mammoth's hairs with those of modern human hair. Four mammoths' hairs came from varying...

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Main Authors: Mike Spilde, Antonio Lanzirotti, Clifford Qualls, Genevieve Phillips, Abdul-Mehdi Ali, Larry Agenbroad, Otto Appenzeller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3126841?pdf=render