Some distinctive colour patterns on the furry coats of dogs came from an extinct canine ancestor that existed more than two million years ago, long before canines were domesticated, reveals a new ...

Both sets show in the coat colors of the horse at birth. The combination displayed could be any two horse colors, with patterns based on what the two horses would have produced individually had ...

The inheritance of several coat color patterns in dogs has been controversially debated for decades. Researchers including Tosso Leeb from the Institute of Genetics of the University of Bern have ...

However, in a new study published this month in Nature Ecology and Evolution, researchers found one gene that predates domestication actually produces five common coat color patterns that are ...

Piebald patterns are among the most striking animal coat patterns in nature. Although the effects of piebaldism are relatively mild, it is one of a range of more serious defects called ...

Researchers took a deep dive into embryonic development to tease out the source of the tabby pattern in cats. By James Gorman Folklore is full of stories about the coat patterns of cats ...

The distinct coat coloring, named for a Finnish snack, was first observed in 2007 in cats from Finland Ari Kankainen; Animal Genetics There's a new cat in town! A group of scientists at the ...

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