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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 ...
Wolf DNA seems to have influenced the size, smelling power and even personality of modern dog breeds, scientists said.
The scientists found that 64.1% of modern breed dogs carry wolf ancestry due to genetic crossbreeding nearly 1,000 ...
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Most modern dogs have wolf DNA from relatively recent interbreeding. Here's which breeds are the most and least 'wolfish.'
The wolf DNA isn't left over from when dogs and wolves diverged; instead, it most likely came from interbreeding in the past ...
Dogs and wolves living today derive from a shared ancient wolf population that lived alongside woolly mammoths and cave bears ...
Morning Overview on MSN
Your dog likely still carries wolf DNA, study finds
Every family dog carries a long evolutionary story in its cells, one that traces back to gray wolves even if the animal on ...
Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient ...
Many dog owners may not be surprised to learn that most dogs still carry some wolf DNA in their genomes. Domestication has ...
Their new study, published in PNAS, examined 2,693 genomes from modern and ancient dogs and wolves. It shows that 64% of dog ...
Discover Magazine on MSN
Even Chihuahuas Still Have Some Wolf in Them — Here’s How Some Dogs Still Carry This DNA
Among dogs without a history of purposeful crossbreeding, samples from two Grand Anglo-Francais Tricolore hounds led the way, ...
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