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“The genomic signature of dog domestication reveals adaptation to a starch-rich diet”
"Dogs Adapted to Agriculture. As wolves became domesticated, their genes adapted to a starch-rich diet of human leftovers."

RAW? -- Grain free ?
Click here http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles. ... riculture/

It is common knowledge dogs are not strict carnivores. Raw diets advocate tripe, most grain free are usually just corn free, and have rice or pototatoes instead of corn. Corn also is one of the best ways to get lutein, an essential nutrient to dogs.

Winchey wrote: pototatoes

Isn't that the same way that Dan Quayle spelled it

Del Lolo wrote:

Winchey wrote: pototatoes

Isn't that the same way that Dan Quayle spelled it

No, he spelled the singular, "potatoe." He was busy inventing climate change at the time so he was a bit distracted.

The carbs study has been around a bit. Grainfree is a huge fad right now. Nutriceuticals that don't require a script are the next wave. I bet Royal Canin for the initial push.

Cajun Casey wrote: The carbs study has been around a bit.

This study was published in January 2013.
Nature, 2013: doi:10.1038/nature11837, 2013.

I posted about this in the Raw thread:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v4 ... 11837.html

But the knowledge that domestic dogs have an increased ability over wolves to digest carbohydrates isn't new to this study. Just the identification of candidate mutations which show signals of selection for adaptation to a diet with carbohydrates and thus support for the theory (in the scientific sense of the term) that the adaptation was crucial to domestication.

Comparisons to wolves regarding diet may now be invalidated:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v4 ... 37_F2.html