Using gene-splicing technology, researchers are trying to resurrect the Christmas Island rat.
So, don't start itching to book your tickets to Jurassic Park just yet. Without a totally accurate genome, scientists cannot predict what might be brought to life.
Researchers will want to do similar experiments to approximate how close a replica of the extinct animal they will create, Gilbert said in an email interview. "And you can then decide if you are happy with that as the end goal. You may be … or you may feel it's not quite what you wanted," he said."But the point is – this analysis is not hard to do and can be quite informative."The researchers at the University of Copenhagen and Shantou University in China used DNA from two dried Christmas Island rat skins to sequence its genome and compare it to the modern Norway rat.
So a reborn Christmas Island rat might"lack attributes likely critical to surviving in its natural or natural-like environment," they write in the report., the rat to be brought back could be a hybrid animal including the immunity genes of the Norway rat, which"could even have some potential benefit," they wrote.
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