http://www.gnxp.com/new/2007/10/24/how-to-build-a-black-dog/ Genetics Tue, 03 Apr 2018 05:20:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.27 http://www.gnxp.com/new/2007/10/24/how-to-build-a-black-dog/#comment-12284 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:41:34 +0000 #comment-12284 So it should be a no-brainer to breed, say, a red poodle. 
 
You’re late – see Google :) 
 
As for how much people would pay, not every single breed is “available” in black, but I can’t think of any body type of dog where there’s a glaring lack of black options. The most dramatic things would be something like a black Irish setter – meh. To be able to have a different-colour clone of your dog would be something else. Or how about a dog coloured like a silver fox or an African wild dog?

]]> http://www.gnxp.com/new/2007/10/24/how-to-build-a-black-dog/#comment-12285 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:57:05 +0000 #comment-12285 hm, I don’t know that the reason for a white coat is fully known. If it’s downstream of mc1r (ie. if it’s a loss of function in some protein necessary for transporting melanin to the skin, like in some forms of albinism), you’d have to get a functioning version of that gene, then the relevant mc1r allele. once the genes are known, then it should be a pretty easy breeding scheme (or, if germ-line engineering in the dog takes off, a few years of playing around).

]]> http://www.gnxp.com/new/2007/10/24/how-to-build-a-black-dog/#comment-12286 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:26:42 +0000 #comment-12286 Thanks, p-ter. 
 
So it should be a no-brainer to breed, say, a red poodle.

]]> http://www.gnxp.com/new/2007/10/24/how-to-build-a-black-dog/#comment-12287 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:10:20 +0000 #comment-12287 yep 
 
http://www.springerlink.com/content/kr1bj48lv4t2ywdx/

]]> http://www.gnxp.com/new/2007/10/24/how-to-build-a-black-dog/#comment-12288 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 15:58:56 +0000 #comment-12288 How about red dogs? MC1R?

]]> http://www.gnxp.com/new/2007/10/24/how-to-build-a-black-dog/#comment-12289 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 09:54:18 +0000 #comment-12289 MC1R is also expressed in the brain (at least in humans), resulting in differences in pain sensitivity and perhaps temperament. Is this ligand/defensin/what-have-you also found in the brain? Would the binding there have effects beyond coat color? I would assume so. There’s a FAQ for Labrador Retriever coat color which dismisses the supposed folk wisdom that Black Labs are better hunters, but it sounds like the folk wisdom might be right.

]]> http://www.gnxp.com/new/2007/10/24/how-to-build-a-black-dog/#comment-12290 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:03:37 +0000 #comment-12290 Isn’t the dog an atypical species? 
 
ha. yeah, probably :)

]]> http://www.gnxp.com/new/2007/10/24/how-to-build-a-black-dog/#comment-12291 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:54:46 +0000 #comment-12291 not in terms of coat pattern genetics.

]]> http://www.gnxp.com/new/2007/10/24/how-to-build-a-black-dog/#comment-12292 Wed, 24 Oct 2007 19:25:36 +0000 #comment-12292 Isn’t the dog an atypical species?

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