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

Author(s) -

Bryan Sykes,

Rhettman A. Mullis,

Christophe Hagenmuller,

Terry Melton,

Michel Sartori

Publication year - 2014

Publication title -

proceedings of the royal society b biological sciences

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.342

H-Index - 253

eISSN - 1471-2954

pISSN - 0962-8452

DOI - 10.1098/rspb.2014.0161

Subject(s) - ursus maritimus , extant taxon , biology , range (aeronautics) , zoology , mitochondrial dna , evolutionary biology , genetics , ecology , gene , materials science , arctic , composite material

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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