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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aren't dogs with brindle coats just beautiful? The color pattern of brindle dog breeds—characterized by black, brown and tawny-colored fur with streaks of other colors—is inherited genetically, so it ...

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 ...

The blonde coats seen on dogs like golden retrievers originated in an extinct canid that split off from grey wolves more than two million years ago, a study has found. It had long been assumed that ...

Sometimes called tiger-striped dogs, these brindle breeds have some of the most uniquely colored coats in all the animal kingdom A dog’s coat is one of its most striking features, whether it’s ...

Dogs come in all shapes and sizes, but variations in color patterns provide some of their most distinctive characteristics. A newly released study sheds light on a subset of these patterns, ...

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