Researchers suggest that as dogs are increasingly domesticated and urbanised, they are experiencing a fresh phase of evolution shaped by their growing role as human companions. The shift stems ...

The mitochondrial genome was used because of earlier work by Vilà that showed the nuclear genomes of dogs and wolves to be too similar to study their molecular evolution. On the other hand ...

Timothy Mousseau, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of South Carolina, said, “We have high hopes that what we learn from these dogs will be of use for understanding human exposures in ...