Posted on 10/01/2008 3:32:53 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
They may not be man's best friend, but wolves in North America do have a little dog in them.
Geneticists investigating the relationships between members of the dog family have found that wolves with black pelts owe their distinctive coloration to a mutation that first arose in domestic dogs.
Domestic dogs were bred from the grey wolf Canis lupus, but exactly when and where that domestication took place, and how various modern breeds of dog relate to wolves, has been a matter of debate.
Now Robert Wayne at the University of California, Los Angeles, and his colleagues are revealing these relationships. The team use DNA chips - which are able to examine some 53,000 genetic variants - to determine which animals are most similar genetically.
The results so far have shown that domestic dogs are most closely related to wolves from the Middle East.
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
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Posted on 11/30/2001 1:40:40 PM PST by blam
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“”The results so far have shown that domestic dogs are most closely related to wolves from the Middle East.””
shall we call them muslims dogs then? lol
I have read many times that the dogs of the Old World (Europe and Middle East) descend from the red wolf.
North American/Siberian descend from gray wolves and were domesticated much later.
Can anyone confirm thgis?
More journalistic pudding-headedness?
The last time I looked, genetic research was showing that ALL dogs are descended from Canis lupus chanco (gray wolf from Asia).
This means dogs entered the New World in the Pleistocene with the PaleoIndians.
The only Red Wolf I know of is the American version which is a Wolf/Coyote hybrid.
“wolves from the Middle East.”
I know of no study showing dogs are related to Canis lupus pallipes or arabs which are the Middle East wolf subspecies.
OMG ROFL.. good one. ver subtle ROFL
Looks like you swiped that from a Warner Brothers cartoon.
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