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

Year: 2014

Type: article

Abstract: 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.

Source: Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2014.0161

Authors: Bryan C. Sykes, Rhettman A. Mullis, Christophe Hagenmuller, Terry W. Melton, Michel Sartori

Institutions: University of Oxford, Naturéum

Language: English

Topic: Forensic and Genetic Research

Subfield: Genetics

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Goddard Space Flight Center

OpenAlex ID: W1977192785

FWCI: 1.926

Cites: 15

Cited by: 27

Related to: 9