Whether purebred or mixed breed, dogs come in a variety of colors and patterns, from dark to light, solid to spotted, and ...

Shown above are the five distinct patterns of dog coats. A new study revealed that domestication from wolves isn't actually what attributes to modern dogs' coat patterns. Nature Ecology & Evolution ...

The researchers hypothesize that lighter coat colors would have been advantageous to an extinct canid ancestor in an arctic environment during glaciation periods 1.5 to 2 million years ago. Natural ...

Dog coat patterns may have emerged before humans domesticated them, study finds. An extinct canine ancestor may have had a hand in influencing fur coat patterns seen in dog breeds today .

Structural variants that control expression of the agouti signaling protein, or ASIP, gene at two separate locations produce five distinctive coat color patterns in modern dogs. These different ...