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The Carolina dog, also known as a yellow dog, yaller dog, American dingo, the Carolina dog was rediscovered living as a free-roaming population by I. Lehr Brisbin Jr., Allen cites late nineteenth-century studies of skeletal remains of dogs that could be found from Alaska to Florida to the Greater Antilles and westward to the Great Plains, and were excavated from Indian mounds as well:

sampled from Carolina dogs. The study showed that 58% of the dogs carried universal haplotypes that could be found around the world (haplotypes In contrast, the Australian dingo and the New Guinea singing dog both belong to haplotype A29 hence there is no recent genetic relationship in the mtDNA. Also in 2013, another study of several dog breeds in the Americas – among them the Carolina dog, the Peruvian Hairless Dog, and the Chihuahua indicated an ancient migration from East Asia.

In 2018, a study compared mtDNA sequences and nuclear SNPs of fossil North American dogs with fossil Siberian dogs and modern dogs. The study indicates that dogs entered North America from Siberia 4,500&nbsp;years after humans first arrived, were isolated for 9,000&nbsp;years, and were nearly wiped out after European contact when they were mostly replaced by Eurasian dogs; the pre-contact dogs exhibit a unique genetic signature that is now almost entirely gone, with their nearest genetic relatives being the Arctic dog breeds. Three Carolina dogs in the study exhibited up to 33% pre-contact/Arctic lineage, however the study could not rule out this being the result of admixture with modern Arctic dog breeds.

A 2020 study using qpAdm of nuclear SNPs of both main branches of modern dog breeds and ancient (bronze age and neolithic) dog bones found that the Carolina Dog's SNP content is best decomposed into 36% New Guinea Singing Dog, 62% European, with the rest mainly attributed to the Old World &ndash; very little support for Baikal/American contribution.

See also

  • Black mouth cur
  • Canaan Dog
  • Dogs portal
  • Feist
  • Free-ranging dog
  • List of dog breeds
  • Lurcher
  • Native American dogs
  • Nureongi
  • Pariah dog
  • Prey, Saari, Carolina Dog cast member of the 2022 movie
  • Rare breed (dog)
  • Rez dog

Notes

References

  • Official United Kennel Club site, Breed information on Carolina dog