Genome of the Tasmanian tiger provides insights into the evolution and demography of an extinct marsupial carnivore

Scientists in the US and Australia have embarked on a $15-million project to resurrect the thylacine or Tasmanian Tiger, a marsupial that went extinct in the 1930s, using gene-editing technology.

Genome of the Tasmanian tiger provides insights into the evolution and demography of an extinct marsupial carnivore

Publications The Evolutionary Morphology Lab

Examining Natural History through the Lens of Palaeogenomics: Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Functional ecological convergence between the thylacine and small prey-focused canids, BMC Ecology and Evolution

Thylacine, Size, Photo, Sightings, & Cloning

Gigabyte

Tasmanian tiger RNA is first to be recovered from an extinct species

MGSE - News 2017

Scientists sequence extinct Tasmanian tiger's genome - Futurity