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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Forensic Sci Int Genet. 2014 Jul 15;13:61–67. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2014.07.007

FIG. 1. Relationship of cats obtained from the suspect’s home.

FIG. 1

The source of the novel mitotype—Tabby—was deceased at the time of sampling. MtDNA analysis supported the relationships of the cats as reported by the owner. The mitotype of the related cats matched the hair evidence identified from the hinge lifts of the victim’s pockets and is a unique mitotype in the feline mtDNA CR dataset. Any of the related cats could be the contributor of the evidence hair, however, color, banding pattern and length narrowed the selection to four cats. The names of those four cats were not noted at the time of the evidence collection. Circles represent females and squares represent males. Three additional cats had different mitotypes, see Table 1.