Jiff the collie represents “shaded yellow,” one of five coat color patterns in domestic dogs identified by Danika Bannasch at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine and collaborators in the U.S.

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A shiba inu, which has the “dominant yellow” coat phenotype described in the new research. Photo: Matt Cardy (Getty Images) A recent genetic analysis of dog coloration found that mutations in one gene ...

Some distinctive colour patterns on the furry coats of dogs came from an extinct canine ancestor that existed more than two million years ago, long before canines were domesticated, reveals a new ...