Sentences with phrase «village dog populations»
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Village dogs therefore carry a more authentic genetic signature of original dog populations than the modern - day breeds created in the past 200 years, mainly in Europe.
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We also found that the effective population size of village dogs was 5 — 10-fold higher than that of the boxer.
Genomic analysis of other village dog and gray wolf populations and additional phenotyping will no doubt further enrich our understanding of the process of domestication and artificial selection in dogs.
The latter estimate is made by adjusting the frequencies of alleles found at each genomic STR locus to the frequency of the same allele in a large population of random breeding village dogs, thus yielding IR - village dog (IRVD).
The adjusted IR value (IR - village dog or IRVD) for the population gave a more accurate measure of just how inbred the parents of modern English bulldogs were compared to village - or landrace - type dogs from which the breed evolved.
In a rural Alaska village, where access to veterinary care requires a plane ride, dog populations quickly grew out of control because of people's unaltered pets.