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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 ...
Most pet dogs carry a little wolf inside them; tiny snippets of wolf DNA that slipped into dog genomes after domestication. A ...
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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 ...
New research suggests that most modern dogs carry a small but detectable dose of wolf DNA acquired after domestication.
Most modern dog breeds have small amounts of wolf ancestry from long after dogs were domesticated, according to a new study. The wolf DNA isn't left over from when dogs and wolves diverged; instead, ...
Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient ...
Dogs and wolves living today derive from a shared ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears ...
Their new study, published in PNAS, examined 2,693 genomes from modern and ancient dogs and wolves. It shows that 64% of dog ...
Wolf-dog hybrids are bred by crossing domestic dogs with wolves, sometimes just a few generations back. They carry physical traits and instincts that set them far apart from standard breeds. These ...
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