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February Genetics Quiz Answers
Posted on February 4, 2012 | No CommentsQuestion 1 Inbreeding leads to: Increased homozygosity. Increased expression of recessive traits. Decreased expression of dominant traits. Increased heterozygosity. Question 2 An allele: Is one of possibly many variations... -
February Genetics Quiz
Posted on February 3, 2012 | 19 CommentsInspired by the Genetics Survey on Gene Expression and an inquiry from the CanineGenetics-L yahoo group, I figure it might be fun to post an occasional genetics quiz to reinforce some of... -
Gene Therapy “Cures” Dog Blindness Again
Posted on January 26, 2012 | 2 CommentsBack in 2001, scientists first treated inherited blindness in dogs using gene therapy. In that instance it was Congenital Stationary Night Blindness which manifests in Briards and is analogous to... -
Unexpected Leonberger Diversity
Posted on January 16, 2012 | 48 CommentsLeonberger history suggests that they should not be a genetically diverse breed. Although they were formed as a hodgepodge of large continental dogs a little over a century ago, two... -
Lessons from Island Wolves
Posted on December 25, 2011 | 69 CommentsSweeping comparisons between wild animals and domesticated pets are dangerous given the unique and often mutually exclusive conditions in which those two groups often find themselves. Wild animals must hunt... -
Academic Fraud in Toller Research
Posted on October 15, 2011 | 12 CommentsThe 2011 study A Genealogical Survey of Australian Registered Dog Breeds is a shoddy piece of work and a disgrace to the scientific method. The world-wide population of Cavalier King Charles... -
COI: How Many Generations are Enough?
Posted on October 10, 2011 | 20 CommentsIn her published paper, A Genealogical Survey of Australian Registered Dog Breeds, Claire Wade would have you believe that looking at 4.1 generations of Toller data is enough to get... -
Pedigree Collapse
Posted on October 10, 2011 | 6 CommentsIt’s common to visualize one’s ancestry as a pyramid with the current individual at the apex descending back across time and generations in an expanding wedge. Every generation has twice the number of... -
Monitoring the Chatter
Posted on October 5, 2011 | 15 CommentsThere’s nothing more rewarding as a blogger than to have a reader use your blog as a resource to add intelligently to a discussion elsewhere on the Internet. BorderWars reader... -
For Whom the Dog Tolls
Posted on October 1, 2011 | 9 CommentsNUNC LENTO SONITU DICUNT, MORIERIS. Now, this Bell tolling softly for another, says to me, Thou must die. PERCHANCE he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as...
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