Tuesday, May 2, 2017

Origins of Dog Breeds

In recent research, scientist were able to put together a family tree of all the dog breeds, discovering the 161 canine breeds. The research began when researches began to explore the genomes of the dogs and wanting to understand how the dogs breeds came so diverse and so many breeds exist now. The team gathered DNA samples of dogs. Samples included  dogs from competitions, shows, and the public, and dog owners had no problem being involved. Along with studying the origin of the dog breeds, this also gives researches a better understand of mutations and diseases. I think it is great that researchers are looking into the origin of dogs more in depth and taking the time to understand mutations and diseases that have been occurring more often in dogs. Dogs are now more than just  hunting and nursery tools, that have become part of our families, and learning the origin of our four legged friends is amazing.

6 comments:

  1. This article is pretty interesting since I didn't know that there were so many breeds myself. It is pretty cool that scientists are looking into this because as you stated, dogs are apart of families and companionship.

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  2. This article is very interesting! I had no clue that there were that many breeds of dogs to be honest. I also believe that knowing where our four legged friends come from is important since they are basically part of our families now a days.

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  3. Good Post! It would be interesting to see the canine breeds compared to human evolution and possible migration over time.

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  4. Nice Post! It's mind blowing to see how far dogs have come, from wild dogs to the 161 different breeds we have today.

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  5. Learning about mutations for each breeds will also help some dogs live longer with the ailments that are known to occur for them specifically!

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  6. Great article on the original genetically modified organism. It is crazy how diverse dogs are today, knowing they all came from wolves.

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