Whether purebred or mixed breed, dogs come in a variety of colors and patterns, from dark to light, solid to spotted, and everything in between. Do you know what a brindle coat is, or what a merle ...

Dog coat patterns may have emerged before humans domesticated them, study finds An extinct canine ancestor may have had a hand in influencing fur coat patterns seen in dog breeds today ...

Structural variants that control expression of the agouti signaling protein, or ASIP, gene at two separate locations produce five distinctive coat color patterns in modern dogs. These different ...

Like us humans, dogs too have multiple distinguishable features that make them truly unique. Merle dog breeds are canines that predominately show the merle coat pattern, a scattering of mottled ...

Variations in two locations of the dog genome are responsible for creating five distinct coat patterns, researchers from the University of California, Davis, found.

Scientists have unraveled the enigma of inheritance of coat color patterns in dogs. The researchers discovered that a genetic variant responsible for a very light coat in dogs and wolves ...