Active and social life is associated with lower non-social fearfulness in pet dogs. Scientific Reports, 2020; 10 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-70722-7 ...

Noise sensitivity, fear of novel situations and, for example, fear of slippery surfaces and heights are common behavioural problems among dogs. According to a behavioural survey of nearly 14,000 ...

Researchers have identified a new genomic region and anxiety-related candidate genes associated with fearfulness in dogs. Findings support their hypothesis that fearfulness and anxiety are ...

Professor Hannes Lohi’s group has identified two novel anxiety related genomic regions in German Shepherd dogs. The region associated with fearfulness corresponds with the locus of human chromosome 18 ...

The survey indicates that insufficient socialisation of puppies to various situations and new environments in particular has a strong link with fearfulness related to novel situations, loud noises as ...

Geneticists cut their teeth on conditions controlled by single loci. The harder task is to find the many loci that work together to control a single trait. In the 7 November Proceedings of the ...