The domestic dog, Canis familiaris, is a well-established model system for mapping trait and
disease loci. While the original draft sequence was of good quality, gaps were abundant …

Hypoadrenocorticism is an uncommon disease in dogs and rare in humans, where it is
known as Addison disease (ADD). The disease is characterized by a deficiency in …

Canine anal furunculosis (AF) is characterised by ulceration and fistulation of perianal tissue
and is a disease that particularly affects German shepherd dogs (GSDs). There are some …

California sea lions (CSLs) have an unusually high occurrence of urogenital cancer (UGC),
with studies revealing metastatic carcinoma in 26% of CSLs admitted to a rehabilitation …

Den progressiva njursjukdomen renal dysplasi (RD), tidigare även benämnd juvenil
progressiv nefropati, har uppmärksammats hos unga hundar i flera raser och en ärftlig …

Domestic animals represent excellent model organisms for gene mapping and identification
of mutations underlying phenotypic traits. Humans have selected spontaneous mutations in …

1. Tsai, KL, Clark, LA & Murphy, KE Understanding hereditary diseases using the dog and
human as companion model systems. Mamm. Genome 18, 444–451 (2007). 2. From canine …

Chiari type I malformation, with or without syringomyelia, is a complex trait, with
predisposing genetic influences. In this chapter, our current knowledge of genetic …

En jaciments arqueològics d'Iran, Israel i Alemanya s' han trobat restes de gossos, de més
de 14.000 anys, que ja estaven morfològicament diferenciats del llop (Vila i Leonard, 2004) …

Genetics is the study of the genome with information stored in the DNA sequence of an
organism. The fact that all living organisms use the same oligonucleotide chemistry, be it …