wrinkled face of a pug, spotted coat of a Dalmatian. Unfortunately, the genetics that give various breeds their particular attributes are often the result of inbreeding. In a recent study published in ...

As professor Steve Jones, ­professor of genetics at University College London, puts it: ‘People talk about birth defects from inbreeding, but just being a pug is a birth defect. ‘Because pugs ...

Sex with your sibling or other close relations, if you are a dog, is called inbreeding ... cannot be birthed naturally), respiration (the pug’s small skull leads to a constellation of ...

Tui the one-year-old Shar-Pei and five-year-old pug Alvin. Owner Nicole Hetland, 24, a learning disability nurse, said: 'Theo's condition is due to irresponsible inbreeding. 'We have owned dogs my ...

The parental inbred lines were distantly related and evenly distributed throughout the entire maize phylogenetic tree. This is almost like pairing a dachshund with a sheepdog, then a pug ...

wrinkled face of a pug, spotted coat of a Dalmatian. Unfortunately, the genetics that give various breeds their particular attributes are often the result of inbreeding. In a recent study ...