Another direct result was a young grad student named Ben Novak, who had been obsessed with passenger pigeons since he was 14 and had also learned how to work with ancient DNA, himself sequenced the passenger pigeon, using money from his family and friends.
Een ander direct resultaat was dat een jonge Masterstudent, Ben Novak, die sinds zijn 14e geobsedeerd was door trekduiven en met oeroud DNA had leren werken zelf de trekduif heeft gesequencet met geld van zijn familie en vrienden.