Balto is still helping people 90 years after his death, but this time, with his DNA.
, but the modern versions of the breed, as well as modern sled dogs are quite different from Balto. Other living dog lineages that share this common ancestry with Balto include Greenland sled dogs, Vietnamese village dogs, and Tibetan mastiffs.
Balto and his owner, Gunnar Kasson, circa 1925. CREDIT: Cleveland Public Library/Photograph Collection.taxidermied remains from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History , an an international collaboration effort to find the genomic basis of shared and specialized traits in mammals.According to Shaprio, a key innovation behind this study is the ability to align the genomes of hundreds of species so that corresponding positions in different genomes can be compared. Comparing these genomes can then revealthat are the same across species and haven’t been changed during millions of years of evolution.
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