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Dog and Dingo DNA sequences
Episode 946

Dog and Dingo DNA sequences

What is the relationship between dogs and dingoes, and the wolves they're both related to?

Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast · The Naked Scientists

April 29, 20226m 29s

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Show Notes

Dingoes are native Australian dogs, although how and when they got to Australia isn't known. They were certainly already there by the time the first western explorers visited the continent, but fossil dingo remains go back only a few thousand years. So what is the relationship between dogs and dingoes, and the wolves they're both related to? Speaking with Chris Smith, Latrobe University's Bill Ballard got into this debate under slightly unusual circumstances... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

Topics

genomeDNAdingodogwolfgenome sequencegenetic codeevolutioncaninebill ballard