The Dog Zombie

The death of my fifteen year old golden retriever Jack wasn’t just about my loss. It was about finding someone else to do his job, which for...

In the face of overwhelming demand (three people thought it sounded like a good idea), here is the geek version of the fat mutant labs FAQ ,...

The study about a mutation associated with obesity in labrador retrievers has received massive news coverage for a dog genetics article (and...

The other day I was re-reading the original dog genome paper, as you do. This is the paper published in 2005 to accompany the release of the...

I won’t lie to you. When I first started thinking about teaching genetics courses for the Association of Professional Dog Trainers, I was mo...

So you have the full sequence of a couple few dog genomes, and a wolf genome to boot. (Yes, these days sequencing is cheap enough that genom...

I was privileged to attend the 7th International Conference on Advances in Canine and Feline Genomics and Inherited Diseases this past week...

I've been thinking a lot lately about how dog aggression works, since the recent dog fighting bust (second largest in history). Fightin...