{"id":40769,"date":"2011-05-18T01:29:26","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T09:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=11791"},"modified":"2011-05-18T01:29:26","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T09:29:26","slug":"a-map-of-charismatic-canid-genomic-variation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/18\/a-map-of-charismatic-canid-genomic-variation\/","title":{"rendered":"A map of charismatic canid genomic variation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/05\/330px-Belgian_Shepherd_Malinois_on_top_of_tank.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11794\" title=\"330px-Belgian_Shepherd_Malinois_on_top_of_tank\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/05\/330px-Belgian_Shepherd_Malinois_on_top_of_tank.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><i><b>The Pith:<\/b> Wolves and coyotes exhibit geographic population structure. The red wolf may &#8220;only&#8221; be a coyote with a minor admixture of wolf, instead of a &#8220;real species.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I like dogs. For various <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2011\/05\/wouldyouhurryitupalittle.jpg\">structural reasons<\/a> I am not able to live with a dog right now (not to mention the required investment of time &#038; energy). But the whole <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/ad\/gmaintroad.html?goback=http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/osama-bin-laden-raid-navy-seals-military-dog\/story?id=13535070\">military dog<\/a> storyline associated with the killing of Osama Bin Laden has me thinking a bit more deeply of the <b>co-evolutionary nature of dog-human relationships.<\/b> Whether dogs have <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sciencemag.org\/sciencenow\/2009\/08\/17-02.html\">theory-of-mind is controversial<\/a>, but there&#8217;s no doubt that they&#8217;re relatively well adapted to operate with humans relatively efficiently as part of a dual-species team. From an evolutionary and genomic perspective dogs are also of interest. Like humans dogs exhibit a huge range of phenotypic variation despite relatively recent common origin. The species which they presumably are derived from, wolves, are intelligent social creatures whose natural range is very expansive indeed. I believe that the <b>general dynamics of evolution and genetics which are operative amongst canids can give us insight into the processes which shape our own species.<\/b> In part that is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pith: Wolves and coyotes exhibit geographic population structure. The red wolf may &#8220;only&#8221; be a coyote with a minor admixture of wolf, instead of a &#8220;real species.&#8221;<br \/>\nI like dogs. For various structural reasons I am not able to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1343,533,7,4,82,1344,1345,1346],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canids","category-dog-genetics","category-evolution","category-genetics","category-genomics","category-great-lakes-wolve","category-red-wolf","category-wolves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40769"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40925,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40769\/revisions\/40925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}