Canine Morphology: Hunting for Genes and Tracking Mutations (original) (raw)
Figure 3
Size variation in the dog.
Variation in skeletal morphology in the dog is a complex phenotype, with IGF-1 as a major determinant of small size [32]. The difference in overall body size between a Cane Corso and a Yorkshire terrier is over 30-fold, yet both are members of the same species, Canis familiaris.