[AKA_Monet]

Originally Posted by Rudey

Whether it's done under a microscope or supervised mating, it's still manipulation. Here is an article from the NYTimes about genetic manipulation on dogs as well as a bunch of other material it quotes:

"Free of most of the ethical concerns — and practical difficulties — associated with the practice of eugenics in humans, dog breeders are seizing on new genetic research to exert dominion over the canine gene pool. Companies with names like Vetgen and Healthgene have begun offering dozens of DNA tests to tailor the way dogs look, improve their health and, perhaps soon, enhance their athletic performance."

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/science/12dog.html
http://genetics.plosjournals.org/per...l.pgen.0030079
http://www.dogdna.org/
http://research.nhgri.nih.gov/dog_genome/
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/conten...t/316/5821/112
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0506940103v1
http://jhered.oxfordjournals.org/cgi.../full/esm018v1
vetgen.com
genmarkag.com
healthgene.com

-Rudey
--There is nothing natural about creating Franken-dogs.

Well, out of the "respectable" articles I see what you have up here most are examining gentoypes and phenotypes of the changes that can be "ferreted" out and optimized.

We are not quite YET at the blastocyst injection stage to make full fledge frankens. Like dino coming out of snoopy--not yet. It is a matter of time, if we can pass PETA. But folks want their world class dog for competitions.

I would say 5-10 years we will have Governator's Arnold S "re-pet". Fully, without immune incompetence due to genomic or epigenetic instability.

If folks have a problem, Here is what we are discussing:



The animals on the far right have the genetic mutation.