The Quagga and Science: What Does the Future Hold for This Extinct Zebra?¶
Heywood. (2013). The Quagga and Science: What Does the Future Hold for This Extinct Zebra?: What Does the Future Hold for This Extinct Zebra?. Perspectives in Biology and Medicine.
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- The quagga — a plains-zebra subspecies with reduced striping and a brownish rear — was hunted to extinction, the last individual dying in an Amsterdam zoo in 1883
This sourceDescribes quaggas as partially striped South African zebras whose tissue yielded the first DNA of an extinct organism to be cloned and sequenced, and notes selective breeding of plains zebras producing quagga-like coat coloration.
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“Quaggas, partially striped zebras from South Africa, have had major impacts on science.”
- The quagga — a plains-zebra subspecies with reduced striping and a brownish rear — was hunted to extinction, the last individual dying in an Amsterdam zoo in 1883
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