Re: [tied] Re: Euxine Event.; DOGS; CUINTL<KWEN ?

The article denies the influence of coyotes or jackals in dog breeds.
Surely there's coyote-dog hybrids, but all dog breeds came from wolf.

Joao SL
Rio

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From: John Croft <jdcroft@...>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 7:06 AM
Subject: [tied] Re: Euxine Event.; DOGS; CUINTL<KWEN ?

> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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
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