Checking the percentage of wolfsblood

elf · 20-08-2008, 10:42

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Originally Posted by saschia

Yes, but this works (as far as I know) for populations diverged for some significant time. As all CSW are actually descendants of one female wolf, and several female GSD, and as the first pairing was done some 50 years ago, you would get results that some percent of CSW population are 100% GSD and other percent of CSW are 100% carpathian wolf, and the percentage of GSD or wolf in the population of CSW would depend only on the relative amount of female lines used, so in theory if only male descendants of the wolf Brita were used, than according to mitochondria only GSD are present, or on the other hand, if only male descendants of the GSD females were used, than we have only wolf mitochondria...
Of course assuming that actually mitochondria from sperm do not play role.

Does anybody know, if there was found any significant difference in overall DNA between wolf and dogs other than genes for skin/coat/eye pigmentation?

If you need you can find many reference papers from http://lib.bioinfo.pl/

elf · 23-09-2008, 14:27

Good review which gather available computer tools: http://darwin.eeb.uconn.edu/eeb348/s...06/nrg1904.pdf

(Some of these tools was used in the recent work "Conservation Genetics of Wolves and their Relationship with Dogs" (Uppsala university).)

23-09-2008, 14:27	#2
elf Member Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 766	Good review which gather available computer tools: http://darwin.eeb.uconn.edu/eeb348/s...06/nrg1904.pdf (Some of these tools was used in the recent work "Conservation Genetics of Wolves and their Relationship with Dogs" (Uppsala university).)