Re: Euxine Event.; DOGS; CUINTL

From: John Croft
Message: 4131
Date: 2000-10-04

Piotr wrote
>If, as seems to be the case, no indigenous American breeds were
among those considered by the study you mentioned, no wonder that
they are left out of the classification. I don't see any mention of
the dingo either. It only menas that the classification is incomplete
and can only be regarded as preliminary.

I understood that the American breeds show backcrossing to both wolf
and coyote, but show the nearest connection is to the Husky, which
makes sense.

The Dingo, has on the basis of genetic work done by the Australian
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO),
which has the best gene sequencing labs in Australia, is genetically
indistinguishable from the pariah dog found from India to South East
Asia. It was descended from the Arabian Type II mentioned by Joao.

Regards

John