DNA sequences from the quagga, an extinct member of the horse family

@article{Taha1984DNASF,
  title={DNA sequences from the quagga, an extinct member of the horse family},
  author={Mohammed Taha and Barbara H. Bowman and M. M. Freiberger and Oliver A. Ryder and Allan Charles Wilson},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1984},
  volume={312},
  pages={282-284},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4313241}
}
Dried muscle from a museum specimen of the quagga, a zebra-like species that became extinct in 1883, is examined, and DNA was extracted in amounts approaching 1% of that expected from fresh muscle, and that the DNA was of relatively low molecular weight.
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