Dog genome sequence and analysis published in "Nature"

EurekAlert (AAAS) ^ | 07 December 2005 | Staff

[PatrickHenry]

Someone has another thread on this topic, using an article from the NYT. I thought this article was worth starting a new thread. If you must clutter up a thread with pics of your own dogs, do it in the other thread: Researchers Decode Dog Genome.

[PatrickHenry]

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[hershey]

Well, I won't clutter up this thread with pics of my wonderful dogs, but as the article states, dogs are remarkable. Yes, indeed.

[Abathar]

""Efforts to create the genetic tools needed to map important genes in dogs have gained momentum over the last 15 years, and already include a partial survey of the poodle genome.""

They find there is a direct DNA link to the French poodle and the French people - Threaten them and they run around peeing on the carpet and find the safest place to hide.

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

LOL!!!!

[doc30]

The problem with that is the poodle breed was imported from Russia to France in the early 18th century.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[bobdsmith]

This could be potentially interesting for the crevo debate in regards to the ability of mutation.

The unique case here is that most anti-evos accept that different dog breeds share a common ancestor. I think we are near to finding out the exact nature of the genetic changes which were necessary to produce such different breeds of dogs. It will be interesting to see the differences due to mutation. I expect that a lot of the variation in physical structure between breeds will be due to mutation of some key genes.

Dog breeds might end up being a good demonstration of the ability of mutation, just as the peppered moth is a good demonstration of the ability of natural selection.

[SampleMan]

The toy poodle is really a hyper lap dog, but my experience with actual poodles (80 lb. dogs) is that they are fine guard and livestock dogs.

[aculeus]

Bump.

[martin_fierro]

HairOfTheDogGenomePing.

[Gumlegs]

Today's Wall Street Journal also had a version of the story.

Thanks for posting.

[HairOfTheDog]

lol - this was also posted here... and I just DoggiePinged the other thread...

Researchers Decode Dog Genome

[Doctor Stochastic]

Barking up the canine Tree Of Life?

Cave Cane!

[GOPJ]

Obvious examples include the contrasting body sizes of 6-pound Chihuahuas and 120-pound Great Danes...

Chihuahuas are descended from rats not wolves... Right?

[js1138]

[doberville]

This is terrific news.

As a Dobe owner, I've lost FIVE dogs to DCM. The Dobermans are poster child for this genetic heart disease whose first symptom is often death. Sixty per cent of males and forty per cent of the bitches have DCM.

How wonderful it will be when they finally find the marker for this horrible affliction.

[PatrickHenry]

Cave Cane!

Veni, vidi, voidi. (I came, I saw, I soiled my trousers.)

[js1138]

These tile murals were all the rage in Pompeii.

[furball4paws]

" "The clustering of regulatory sequences is incredibly interesting," said Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, first author of the Nature paper and co-director of the genome sequencing and analysis program at Broad."

I have been saying for awhile that this a key component in evolution. I think the more critters that get sequenced, the more profound these "non-coding" differences will be. I am looking forward, eagerly.