The Dog Zombie

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...

Despite my previous voracious reading about tame foxes, as I settle in to my new lab I’m realizing how much I don’t know about them. For ex...

Tame fox kits We often talk about the tame foxes as “silver foxes,” but in fact there are multiple color morphs in the tame population...

I finally got around to sharing the data from my study of dog salivary cortisol levels on figshare. I have meant to do this for months. Par...

Having gotten somewhat settled in my new program , I asked my boss how she might feel about my blogging under my real name. She allowed as h...

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...