Those tiny, fluffy dogs walking down the street may look cute but beware — they probably have some wolf in them. That is the discovery announced on Monday by U.S. scientists, who were surprised to ...
Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient ...
Dogs were the first of any species that people domesticated, and they have been a constant part of human life for millennia.
Their new study, published in PNAS, examined 2,693 genomes from modern and ancient dogs and wolves. It shows that 64% of dog ...
Genomic analysis of more than 2,700 dog and wolf genomes shows that most modern dogs carry small traces of post-domestication ...
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Scientists Discover Detectable Wolf DNA in Two-Thirds of Dog Breeds, Including Tiny Chihuahuas
A recent study revealed that a majority of modern-day dog breeds had close contact with wolves several thousand years ago ...
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Ancient Dogs Were Surprisingly Diverse Long Before Modern Breeds
A new study shows that diversity in dog breeds came around 11,00 years ago, much earlier than the Victorian period.
Many dog owners may not be surprised to learn that most dogs still carry some wolf DNA in their genomes. Domestication has ...
New research suggests that most modern dogs carry a small but detectable dose of wolf DNA acquired after domestication.
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A DNA Analysis of Almost 3,000 Canines Suggests That Most Dogs Have a Little Wolf in Them
The two subspecies split about 20,000 years ago. But since then, they may have interbred more often than Smithsonian ...
On average, terriers, gundogs, and scent hounds have the least wolf ancestry. While some large guardian dogs have high wolf ancestry, others including the Neapolitan mastiff, bullmastiff, and the St.
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