Sentence examples for dog lineage from inspiring English sources

"[W]e did detect signals of hybridization between the gray wolf/domestic dog lineage and the Eurasian golden jackal and African golden wolf lineages.

On the basis of DNA from several wolf populations and from the hairs collected off 654 dogs around the world, Dr. Savolainen calculates a date for domestication either 40,000 years ago, if all dogs come from a single wolf, or around 15,000 years ago, the date he prefers, if three animals drawn from the same population were the wolf Eves of the dog lineage.

Such variation in rate may reflect relaxation of constraints in the dog lineage.

In other words, each of these regions underwent independent breaks in both the rat (mouse) and dog lineage.

However, the phylogenetic data demonstrated that the Sonora dog lineage originated from independent dog rabies enzootics translocated from Central America, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Michoacán in west-central Mexico.

Lack of synteny surrounding the NEAT1 paralogs suggests that a large-scale duplication within the dog lineage does not explain this event.

These pre-Columbian dog lineages have disappeared.

This is the conclusion of a second study, based on DNA retrieved from ancient dog bones from Mexico, Bolivia and Peru, which found that all the pre-Columbian dogs belonged to Eurasian dog lineages.

His team's analysis of modern dog and wolf DNA suggests that the wolf and dog lineages split off from each other about 32,000 years ago.

"Due to the fact that they evolved in isolation without mixing from other wolf and domestic dog lineages and their critically endangered status, it is prudent to focus conservation efforts as an evolutionary distinct entity," Yumnan said in an email.

ω (Human), ω (Mouse) and ω (Dog) are the Ka/ Ks ratios in human, mouse and dog lineages, respectively.