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TWiEVO 85: Teaching old dogs new genetic tricks

This Week in Evolution

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Axon Guidance in the Sheepdogs

There's an instinctive hurting drive Uh, so it's not it's a good phenotype to study. Yeah, and like golden retrievers aren't doing it right? They're just sort of You know, yeah, just on your lap hanging out and and panting at you. So yeah, they're good Every retrieving stuff right but they are I grew up with a golden retriever So I'm not trying to like cast shadows on this guy's I love I love them um okay, so Their g-wass comes back then with one of these functional categories called axon guidance receptors. The variant that they identify is in 77 of the border collies in their data set and only

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