Domestication and selective breeding have transformed wolves into the diversity of dogs we see today. The sequence of the genome of one breed adds to our understanding of mammalian biology and genome evolution.
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Ellegren, H. The dog has its day. Nature 438, 745–746 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/438745a
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