The dog, Canis lupus familiaris, is of particular interest for animal breeding because of its importance for the human as pet.
A lot of phenotypically heterogenous breeds have been derived from few founders and they have been inbred for years leading to a high homogenity within breeds.
For this reason, the dog is considered as an important model organism for research on genetic diversity and morphological variation within the species. The haploid genome is estimated to be 2445 Mb.
The diploid genome consists out of 38 pairs of autosomes and two sex chromosomes, of which only the X chromsosome has been analyzed. In agReg-SNPdb, we store 19,960 genes and 4,725,021 SNPs.
