Genetic evidence for feist having ancient American origins

[Marc Gray]

"We also identify two additional clades of New World breeds, the American terriers and the American toys (Figures 2I and 2J), two monophyletic clades of small-sized breeds from North/Central America, which include a set of related terriers, and the Chihuahua and Chinese crested. Written records state that the terriers trace their ancestry to the feist, a North American landrace dog bred for hunting...The separation of the older American breeds on the cladogram, despite recent European admixture, suggests that both clades may retain the aboriginal New World dog genomic signatures intermixed with the European breed haplotypes, similar to the admixture among European, African, and Native American genomes that can be found in modern South American human populations (Mathias et al., 2016; Ruiz-Linares et al., 2014). This is the first indication that the New World dog signature may not be entirely extinct in modern dog breeds, as has been previously suggested (Leonard et al., 2002)" p. 706


So feist have some pre-colonial, Native American dog DNA in them, according to this!

www.cell.com/cell-…/pdfExtended/S2211-1247(17)30456-4

[phil46]

Interesting. I was unable to open the link.

Have you ever done any reading on the Carolina Dog? www.carolinadogs.com/

[Marc Gray]

The link takes a while to open. I have. I think the dogs like Carolina dogs were once much more common and had to have come into contact with European dogs to contribute to cur & feist dogs. These dogs are just plain different in terms of behavior than the traditional idea of what a terrier or hound might be.