Lighter coat colours – currently seen in hundreds of dog breeds and millions of dogs around the world – may have been advantageous to the extinct ancestor about 1.5 to two million years ago ...

Dogs need mutations in two areas of the ASIP gene to get different coat patterns. Bannasch and colleagues renamed the phenotypes to better describe the variations: dominant yellow, shaded yellow, ...

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 ...

Of course, any two dogs that breed can have offspring with a variety of these coat patterns, depending on the parents’ haplotypes. Jiff the collie, who has a shaded yellow phenotype.

A study published by Nature Ecology & Evolution shows that the distinctive coat patterns we recognize in today's favorite dog breeds aren't actually due to mutation and domesticated breedings, as ...

Dogs obtain their unique coat colors from a gene called Agouti-signaling protein (ASIP). The gene is responsible for controlling the amount and variation of yellow and black pigments seen in many ...

More than 2000 dogs were administered the vaccine. Photo : K.R. Deepak Researchers have successfully uncovered the secret behind the inheritance of coat colour patterns in dogs.

Dogs need mutations in two areas of the ASIP gene to get different coat patterns. Bannasch and colleagues renamed the phenotypes to better describe the variations: dominant yellow, shaded yellow ...