31 Oct
2007
Gene that gives dogs black fur
A discovery about the genetics of coat color in dogs could help explain why humans come in different weights and vary in our abilities to cope with stress, a team led by scientists from the Stanford University School of Medicine reports. The study, reported in the Nov. 2 issue of Science, answers a longtime mystery: What determines coat color in dogs" While scientists have known since the 1900s that most mammals share the same genetic mechanism to determine coat color, by the 1950s they began to suspect that dogs were different........
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