I'd like to, but can't find a practical way to do so.
I doubt there is any consumer level service that would do this- the "23andme for dogs" type services likely aren't setup for this. It would need to be a professional level biotech project, where one would prepare the sample themselves and send it off for sequencing where you get just raw data back.
I am an academic scientist with a lab, and know how to do this, but feel it would be inappropriate to use my work facilities for such a project.
And in any case, you may not really get any conclusive data back anyhow.
CBC Marketplace sent a _human_ DNA sample to various dog DNA testing places and from some of them got an actual dog breed answer back (instead of the expected "error, not dog DNA").
So if you send "wolf" to a dog DNA testing place, how accurate would that really be for "wolf" vs. "dog" when all they expect to find is "dog" (and "wolf" is very close to "dog" given overall ancestry)?
Can you buy the primers personally for a few selected regions of great variability, do the extraction and PCR, and pay for sending it off for sequencing personally? You don't really need whole genome coverage and I'm sure if you asked if you could use a few ml of lysis buffer nobody would care. The scariest part for me would be sticking a buccal swab in your wolfdog's mouth...
If it is an Ethiopian wolf, then it is one of the rarest animals on earth, and I suspect that many organizations would be more than willing to stump up for the testing.
I’d start by dropping into a local zoo, with photos.
UniverseHacker|1 year ago
I doubt there is any consumer level service that would do this- the "23andme for dogs" type services likely aren't setup for this. It would need to be a professional level biotech project, where one would prepare the sample themselves and send it off for sequencing where you get just raw data back.
I am an academic scientist with a lab, and know how to do this, but feel it would be inappropriate to use my work facilities for such a project.
tharkun__|1 year ago
CBC Marketplace sent a _human_ DNA sample to various dog DNA testing places and from some of them got an actual dog breed answer back (instead of the expected "error, not dog DNA").
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/marketplace-dog-dna-test-1....
So if you send "wolf" to a dog DNA testing place, how accurate would that really be for "wolf" vs. "dog" when all they expect to find is "dog" (and "wolf" is very close to "dog" given overall ancestry)?
azalemeth|1 year ago
ChrisMarshallNY|1 year ago
I’d start by dropping into a local zoo, with photos.