Board Thread:Fossil Fuels/@comment-1259419-20160119225225/@comment-3213993-20160120224333

As I said in the other thread, virtually all of the myosin sequences and one actin sequence that I BLASTed were not identical to vertebrate proteins, but to insect proteins. I didn't BLAST the other ones, but the individual peptide sequences can be found here: http://pubs.acs.org/doi/suppl/10.1021/acs.jproteome.5b00675/suppl_file/pr5b00675_si_001.pdf

The fact that Cleland et al. did not BLAST individual peptides or include invertebrates in their BLAST search query (correct me if I'm wrong) suggests to me that the paper is flawed. Also note that a purported Brachylophosaurus collagen sequence is 100% identical to a unique mouse peptide, but was listed in the original collagen paper as being identical to "mammals and ostrich". To me, this bolsters the case for contamination.