Sentences with phrase «ancient dog of»

Originally called the «Canis Melitaeus» in Latin, it has also been known in English as the «ancient dog of Malta,» the «Roman Ladies» Dog,» the «Maltese Lion Dog,» and «Melita» (the former name of Malta).

Throughout the centuries, the Maltese has been known by many names including «Canis Melitaeus» which translates to the «ancient dog of Malta».

People have called it the «ancient dog of Malta,» the Roman Ladies dog and the Maltese Lion Dog.

Both the Coastal Eskimo Dog and the Alaskan Interior Village Dog descended from the ancient dogs of nomadic hunter gathers that used the Bering Land Bridge to migrate across the Bering Strait into Alaska over 14,000 years ago.

Not exact matches

«We found that instead of recent wolves being closest to domestic dogs, ancient European wolves were directly related to them,» said Robert Wayne, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in UCLA's College of Letters and Science and senior author of the research.

Modernization dogs the footsteps of any one who endeavors to make ancient developments of thought live for contemporary readers.

In this deeply personal collection, Heidi turns to the series of dog - eared recipe journals she has kept for years — each filled with newspaper clippings, magazine scraps, photos, stamps, receipts, and sticky notes to chronicle details she wants to remember: a paprika - spiked tomato soup in Amsterdam, the pattern of an ancient Italian olive grove she passed on the way to the Bari airport, and the precise way an elderly Vietnamese woman carefully sliced broccoli stems in the back of a grocery in New Zealand.

WASHINGTON — A trio of dogs buried at two ancient human sites in Illinois lived around 10,000 years ago, making them the oldest known domesticated canines in the Americas.

But complete genomes of the ancient dogs suggest a simpler story.

A fossil found in Maryland was identified by a University of Pennsylvania doctoral student as belonging to a new species of ancient dog.

Placement of the Americas dogs in their own graves indicates that these animals were held in high regard by ancient people.

Only a small number of U.S. and Asian dogs share maternal ancestry with ancient American dogs, suggesting the arrival of European breeds starting at least several hundred years ago reshaped dog DNA in the Americas, she proposed.

Genomic sequencing of ancient dogs in the Americas to understand their demographic history.

Ancient American dogs, including the Koster and Stilwell II animals, shared a common genetic ancestor, cell biologist Kelsey Witt Dillon of the University of California, Merced reported April 13 at the SAA meeting.

Much of the genetic blueprint of those ancient dogs is absent in present - day canines, Dillon said.

Three - dimensional reconstructions of the skulls of the Goyet dog and another Ice Age dog show that the animals» snouts didn't angle from the skull the way modern dogs» do, and the ancient versions didn't have some other features of modern dogs (SN Online: 2/5/15).

Scientists examined mitochondrial DNA, which is passed from mothers to offspring, to trace maternal lineages of ancient and modern dogs and wolves.

ON THE HUNT In a new book, anthropologist Pat Shipman argues that ancient humans hastened the demise of Neandertals when they domesticated wolves and used dogs in big game hunts.

«The ancient [Newgrange] dog had ancestry not found in modern dogs or in modern wolves,» says Mietje Germonpré, who was not part of the dual - origin team.

In addition to collecting DNA from hundreds of modern wolves as well as mutts and purebred dogs, the dual - origin researchers extracted DNA from dozens of ancient dogs, including a particularly high - value sample from a 4,800 - year - old animal unearthed in Newgrange, Ireland.

The short snout and wide braincase of a canid skull (top) found in Belgium's Goyet Cave, in comparison with two ancient wolves found in nearby caves (middle, bottom), led scientists to claim the Goyet bones are from a 36,000 - year - old dog.

DNA analysis of an ancient wolf calibrates the split between dogs and wolves to 27,000 to 40,000 years ago.

Some ancient Indo - European myths attribute healing powers to dogs, says archaeologist Paul Garwood of the University of Birmingham in England.

11 Fighting a hangover by drinking «the hair of the dog that bit you» may have originated in an ancient belief that ingesting the hair of a dog that literally bit you could guard against infection.

1 The sultry «dog days of summer» get their name from ancient astronomers who noticed that those days coincide with the period when Sirius, the Dog Star, rises at the same time as the sdog days of summer» get their name from ancient astronomers who noticed that those days coincide with the period when Sirius, the Dog Star, rises at the same time as the sDog Star, rises at the same time as the sun.

«As the first species to be domesticated, dogs have a very ancient and very profound link to humans that affected both of us.»

In his latest research on the origins of dogs around the world, Peter Savolainen, a canine genealogy authority at Stockholm's KTH Royal Institute of Technology, set out to examine the genetic connection between dogs in Madagascar and the pets of ancient settlers from Indonesia.

Both say that many more samples, especially of ancient dogs and wolves, are needed.

Some of today's dogs may carry genetic traces of that early domestication — but it's hard to find, in part because scientists are still trying to recover DNA from those ancient German dogs.

A consortium led by Greger Larson of the University of Oxford is now doing just that, comparing genetic and morphological data from hundreds of ancient dogs and wolves.

The DNA evidence also shows that modern - day Siberian Huskies and Greenland sled dogs share an unusually large number of genes with the ancient Taimyr wolf.

Dogs» special relationship to humans may go back 27,000 to 40,000 years, according to genomic analysis of an ancient Taimyr wolf bone reported in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on May 21.

The genome from this ancient specimen, which has been radiocarbon dated to 35,000 years ago, reveals that the Taimyr wolf represents the most recent common ancestor of modern wolves and dogs.

DOGS» EARLY DAYS This year, scientists analyzed the DNA from this 35,000 - year - old piece of rib bone from an ancient wolf.

In May, a genetic analysis of an ancient wolf's rib bone suggested that wolves and dogs probably split sometime between 27,000 and 40,000 years ago (SN: 6/13/15, p. 10).

Additional support for population structure comes from the clustering of all the ancient samples within C1 into a sub-haplogroup distinct from that of modern dogs, while it is also noteworthy that non-C haplogroups, including A, are more apparent in Southeast Europe in the archaeological record12.

The two major advantages of this estimate are that (a) it only depends on previously discovered variable sites in higher coverage modern dogs (our genotype calling in ancient samples is likely to be much more accurate in such situations), and (b) it uses only a single chromosome from each population (which can be randomly picked), and thus does not require calling heterozygotes accurately (that is, it should not be sensitive to the lower coverage of our ancient samples).

Both MixMapper23 and ADMIXTUREGRAPH22 were used to perform model - based inference of specific admixture events involving the three ancient dogs.

As expected, European dogs share more derived alleles with the ancient dogs than Indian village dogs, with ratios of 1.186 — 1.217 for HXH and 1.195 — 1.231 for NGD (Supplementary Table 17).

If one population (for example, B) is kept constant, in this case an ancient dog, then introducing different populations to represent A will provide relative estimates of genetic similarity with B (note this makes no assumptions with regard to the complexity of the demographic history that connects populations A and B).

It is likely that these results are due to remnant postmortem damage artificially inflating variation in the ancient samples and elongating the branch lengths in the G - PhoCS analysis, as we detected an excess of private variants in all three ancient samples compared to European village dogs.

To date, Southeast Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia have all been proposed as potential locations for the origin of dog domestication based on modern genomic data, archaeological evidence and ancient mitochondrial lineages5, 7,9,33.

We examined the phylogenetic relationship of the entire mitochondrial genomes of HXH and CTC with a comprehensive panel of modern dogs across four major clades (A — D), modern wolves and coyotes, and previously reported ancient wolf - like and dog - like whole mitochondrial sequences5, 12.

Altogether, the haplotypes of the three ancient samples were classified as either dog or wolf - like for 18 matrices that showed clear distinction between dog and wild canid haplotypes based on average reference allele counts calculated per window.

In analyzing and carefully comparing the genetic information from dogs representing 85 breeds, the researchers were surprised to discover previously unappreciated relationships between existing breeds and new details that suggest completely unexpected breeds to be among the most ancient descendents of dogs» wolf - like ancestors.

Moreover, he argues that diversity patterns in living dogs might not be a foolproof map of domestication events in ancient times.

«It's an interesting time, because the technology is moving faster than our ability to ask questions of it,» Greger Larson, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Oxford who studies ancient dogs and wolves, told Nature in June.

Sharpe said that further studies are needed to investigate what roles did animals, like dogs, play in the evolution of the Mayan civilization or the ancient Mesoamerica in general.

Named in many ancient cultures, the primary star is now commonly called «Zavijava» in modern star catalogues, originally from «Al Zawiah,» the Angle or Corner (i.e. Kennel) of the Arab Dogs although Gamma Virginis (commonly called Porrima from the Latin) now fits the location better (Richard Hinckley Allen, 1889: page 469).

The history of dog domestication is that of an ancient partnership between dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and humans.