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 ...

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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 ...

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 originated ...

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 ...