From which animal was ancient DNA first extracted in 1984?

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History of Ancient DNA Arguably the first aDNA study was in 1984, with a publication by Russ Higuchi and colleagues at Berkeley that was to revolutionise the scope of molecular biology, traces of DNA from a museum specimen of the Quagga, not only remained in the specimen over 150 years after the death of the individual, but could be extracted and sequenced (Higuchi et al. 1984). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_DNA May 13 06, 4:25 PM

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