Genetic analysis of hair samples attributed to yeti, bigfoot and other anomalous primates

In the first ever systematic genetic survey, we have used rigorous decontamination followed by mitochondrial 12S RNA sequencing to identify the species origin of 30 hair samples attributed to anomalous primates. Two Himalayan samples, one from Ladakh, India, the other from Bhutan, had their closest...

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Published in:Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Main Authors: Sykes, Bryan C., Mullis, Rhettman A., Hagenmuller, Christophe, Melton, Terry W., Sartori, Michel
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Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2014
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Ursus maritimus
Online Access:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4100498
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24990672
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0161
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spelling ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:4100498 2023-05-15T18:42:24+02:00 Genetic analysis of hair samples attributed to yeti, bigfoot and other anomalous primates Sykes, Bryan C. Mullis, Rhettman A. Hagenmuller, Christophe Melton, Terry W. Sartori, Michel 2014-08-22 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4100498 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24990672 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0161 en eng The Royal Society http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24990672 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0161 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ © 2014 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. CC-BY Research Articles Text 2014 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2014.0161 2014-08-24T00:42:24Z In the first ever systematic genetic survey, we have used rigorous decontamination followed by mitochondrial 12S RNA sequencing to identify the species origin of 30 hair samples attributed to anomalous primates. Two Himalayan samples, one from Ladakh, India, the other from Bhutan, had their closest genetic affinity with a Palaeolithic polar bear, Ursus maritimus. Otherwise the hairs were from a range of known extant mammals. Text Ursus maritimus PubMed Central (PMC) Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 1789 20140161
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Genetic analysis of hair samples attributed to yeti, bigfoot and other anomalous primates
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description In the first ever systematic genetic survey, we have used rigorous decontamination followed by mitochondrial 12S RNA sequencing to identify the species origin of 30 hair samples attributed to anomalous primates. Two Himalayan samples, one from Ladakh, India, the other from Bhutan, had their closest genetic affinity with a Palaeolithic polar bear, Ursus maritimus. Otherwise the hairs were from a range of known extant mammals.
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Mullis, Rhettman A.
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Melton, Terry W.
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title Genetic analysis of hair samples attributed to yeti, bigfoot and other anomalous primates
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title_full Genetic analysis of hair samples attributed to yeti, bigfoot and other anomalous primates
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title_full_unstemmed Genetic analysis of hair samples attributed to yeti, bigfoot and other anomalous primates
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