The Yeti DNA sequenced

 
 






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FACTS

Species:

  1. Yethi vulgaris


Location:

  1. Tibet, Nepal


PUBLICATIONS

  1. Molecular Phylogenetics & Evolution 31: 1–3 (2004)
    (1st of April issue)



MAIN COLLABORATORS


Gisella Caccone
Group leader at Yale University.

  1. web page


Georges Amato
He was in Jeff Powell’s lab during the “Yeti story” and he is now Director of the Center for Conservation Genetics and Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics at the American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA

  1. web page




Other collaborators and sample sources

  1. Peter Matthiessen
    Is a two-time National Book Award-winning American novelist and nonfiction writer as well as an environmental activist. He frequently focuses on American Indian issues and history, as in his detailed study of the Leonard Peltier case, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse. In November 2008, at age 81, he received his second National Book Award for “Shadow Country”, an 890-page revision of a trilogy of novels he released in the 1990s. His first National Book Award was won in 1980 for “The Snow Leopard”. His story “Travelin' Man” was adapted into the film “The Young One” by Luis Buñuel.

  2. Check Wikipedia



 

Molecular phylogenetic analysis of mtDNA sequences from the Yeti


The sequence in GenBank format:

ID YETI12SR standard; genomic DNA; ORG; 400 BP.
XX
AC YETI12SR;
XX
SV YETI12SR.1
XX
DT 01-APR-2004 (Rel. 78, Created)
DT 01-APR-2004 (Rel. 78, Last updated, Version 1)
XX
DE Yeti mitochondrial partial 12S rRNA gene
XX
KW 12S rRNA gene; 12S ribosomal RNA.
XX
OS Yeti (ye-the, Abominable Snowman)
OC Unclassified.
OG Mitochondrion
XX
RN [1]
RP 1-400
RA Milinkovitch M.C.;
RT ;
RL Submitted (01-APR-2004) to the EMBL/GenBank/DDBJ databases.
XX
RN [2]
RA Milinkovitch M.C., Caccone A., Amato G.;
RT "Molecular phylogenetic analyses indicate extensive morphological
RT convergence between the Yeti and Primates";
RL Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31:1-3(2004).
XX
FH Key Location/Qualifiers
FH
FT source 1..400
FT /organism="Yeti"
FT /mol_type="genomic DNA"
FT /organelle="mitochondrion"
FT /country="Nepal"
FT /tissue_type="hair"
FT rRNA <1..>400
FT /gene="12S rRNA"
FT /product="12S ribosomal RNA"
XX
SQ Sequence 400 BP; 131 A; 94 C; 74 G; 81 T; 20 other
gcttagccct aaactaaaat agctnaccan nnnaaagcta ttcgccagag tactactagc 60
aacagcctaa aactnaangg ncttggnggt gcttnacatc cctctngngg ngcctgttcc 120
ataatcgnta anccccgata aaccccacca tcccttgcta attcagccta tataccgcca 180
tcttcagcaa accctaaaca aggtaccgaa gtaagcacaa acatccaaca taaaaacgtt 240
aggtcaaggt gtagcccatg ggatggagag aaatgggcta cattttctac cctaagaacn 300
agaactttaa cccggacgaa agtctccatg aaactggaga ctgaaggagg atttagcagt 360
aaattaagan nnnagagctt aattgaatca ggccatgaag 400




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