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Coat (dog)

Index Coat (dog)

The coat of the domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris) refers to the hair that covers its body. [1]

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Airedale Terrier

The Airedale Terrier (often shortened to "Airedale"), also called Bingley Terrier and Waterside Terrier, is a dog breed of the terrier type that originated in the valley (dale) of the River Aire, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Akita (dog)

The is a large breed of dog originating from the mountainous northern regions of Japan.

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Albinism

Albinism in humans is a congenital disorder characterized by the complete or partial absence of pigment in the skin, hair and eyes.

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Alpha-Linolenic acid

α-Linolenic acid (ALA) is an n−3 fatty acid.

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American Eskimo Dog

The American Eskimo Dog is a breed of companion dog, originating in Germany.

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Anatomical terms of location

Standard anatomical terms of location deal unambiguously with the anatomy of animals, including humans.

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Animal fancy

Animal fancy is a hobby involving the appreciation, promotion, or breeding of pet or domestic animals.

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Antioxidant

Antioxidants are molecules that inhibit the oxidation of other molecules.

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Australian Cattle Dog

The Australian Cattle Dog (ACD), or simply Cattle Dog, is a breed of herding dog originally developed in Australia for droving cattle over long distances across rough terrain.

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Australian Kelpie

The Australian Kelpie, or simply Kelpie, is an Australian sheep dog successful at mustering and droving with little or no guidance.

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Australian Shepherd

The Australian Shepherd, often known simply as the "Aussie", is a medium-sized breed of dog that was, despite its name, developed on ranches in the Western United States during the 19th century.

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Australian Silky Terrier

The Australian Silky Terrier is a small breed of dog of the terrier dog type.

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Australian Terrier

The Australian Terrier is a small breed of dog of the terrier dog type.

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Beagle

The beagle is a breed of small hound that is similar in appearance to the much larger foxhound.

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Bearded Collie

The Bearded Collie, or Beardie, is a herding breed of dog once used primarily by Scottish shepherds, but now mostly a popular family companion.

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Bedlington Terrier

The Bedlington Terrier is a breed of small dog named after the mining town of Bedlington, Northumberland in North East England.

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Bichon

Bichon is the name for a type of related dog breeds in the non-sporting category.

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Bichon Frise

A Bichon Frise (or; from bichon à poil frisé,, meaning 'curly lap dog') is a small breed of dog of the bichon type.

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Biotin

Biotin is a water-soluble B vitamin, also called vitamin B7 and formerly known as vitamin H or coenzyme R. Biotin is composed of a ureido ring fused with a tetrahydrothiophene ring.

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Border Collie

The Border Collie is a working and herding dog breed developed in the Anglo-Scottish border region for herding livestock, especially sheep.

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Boston Terrier

The Boston Terrier is a breed of dog originating in the United States of America.

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Boxer (dog)

The Boxer is a medium-sized, short-haired breed of dog, developed in Germany.

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Breed standard

A breed standard (also called bench standard or standard of points) in animal fancy and animal husbandry is a set of guidelines which is used to ensure that the animals produced by a breeder or breeding facility conform to the specifics of the standardized breed.

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Catahoula Cur

The Louisiana Catahoula Leopard Dog is an American dog breed named after Catahoula Parish, Louisiana, United States.

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Cavalier King Charles Spaniel

The Cavalier King Charles Spaniel is a small spaniel classed as a toy dog by The Kennel Club and the American Kennel Club.

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Chesapeake Bay Retriever

The Chesapeake Bay Retriever is a large-sized breed of dog belonging to the Retriever, Gundog, and Sporting breed groups.

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Chow Chow

The Chow Chow (sometimes simply Chow) is a dog breed originally from northern China, where it is referred to as Songshi Quan (Pinyin: sōngshī quǎn 鬆獅犬), which means "puffy-lion dog".

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Collagen

Collagen is the main structural protein in the extracellular space in the various connective tissues in animal bodies.

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Conformation show

A conformation show, also referred to as a breed show, is a kind of dog show in which a judge familiar with a specific dog breed evaluates individual purebred dogs for how well the dogs conform to the established breed type for their breed, as described in a breed's individual breed standard.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element with symbol Cu (from cuprum) and atomic number 29.

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Countershading

Countershading, or Thayer's law, is a method of camouflage in which an animal's coloration is darker on the upper side and lighter on the underside of the body.

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Dachshund

The dachshund (UK: /ˈdakshʊnd/ or or) (badger dog; also known as the sausage dog or wiener dog) is a short-legged, long-bodied, hound-type dog breed.

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Dalmatian dog

The Dalmatian is a breed of medium-sized dog, noted for its unique black or liver spotted coat and mainly used as a carriage dog in its early days.

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Delta 6 desaturase

Delta 6 desaturase (D6D or Δ-6-desaturase) is a desaturase enzyme that converts between types of fatty acids (termed 6 after omega-6 fatty acids), which are essential nutrients in the human body.

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Dermatitis

Dermatitis, also known as eczema, is a group of diseases that results in inflammation of the skin.

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Dobermann

The Dobermann, or Doberman Pinscher in the United States and Canada, is a medium-large breed of domestic dog originally developed around 1890 by Karl Friedrich Louis Dobermann, a tax collector from Germany.

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Docosahexaenoic acid

Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) is an omega-3 fatty acid that is a primary structural component of the human brain, cerebral cortex, skin, and retina.

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Dog

The domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris when considered a subspecies of the gray wolf or Canis familiaris when considered a distinct species) is a member of the genus Canis (canines), which forms part of the wolf-like canids, and is the most widely abundant terrestrial carnivore.

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Dog grooming

Dog grooming refers to both the hygienic care and cleaning of a dog, as well as a process by which a dog's physical appearance is enhanced for showing or other types of competition.

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Dog skin disorders

Skin disorders are among the most common health problems in dogs, and have many causes.

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Dunker

A Dunker, also known as the Norwegian Hound, is a medium-sized breed of dog from Norway.

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Eicosapentaenoic acid

Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA; also icosapentaenoic acid) is an omega-3 fatty acid.

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English Mastiff

The English Mastiff is a breed of extremely large dog (often known simply as the Mastiff) perhaps descended from the ancient Alaunt and Pugnaces Britanniae, with a significant input from the Alpine Mastiff in the 19th century.

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English Setter

The English Setter is a medium-size breed of dog.

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Entlebucher Mountain Dog

The Entlebucher Sennenhund or Entlebucher Mountain Dog is a medium-sized herding dog, it is the smallest of the four Sennenhunds, a dog type that includes four regional breeds.

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Epidermis

The epidermis is the outer layer of the three layers that make up the skin, the inner layers being the dermis and hypodermis.

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Essential fatty acid interactions

The effects on humans of the ω-3 (omega-3) and ω-6 (omega-6) essential fatty acids (EFAs) are best characterized by their interactions; they cannot be understood separately.

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Fatty acid desaturase

A fatty acid desaturase is an enzyme that removes two hydrogen atoms from a fatty acid, creating a carbon/carbon double bond.

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French Bulldog

The French Bulldog, also known as Frenchie, is a small breed of domestic dog.

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Fur

Fur is the hair covering of non-human mammals, particularly those mammals with extensive body hair that is soft and thick.

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German Shorthaired Pointer

The German Shorthaired Pointer (GSP) is a medium to large sized breed of dog developed in the 19th century in Germany for hunting.

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Golden Retriever

The Golden Retriever is a large-sized breed of dog bred as gun dogs to retrieve shot waterfowl such as ducks and upland game birds during hunting and shooting parties, and were named 'retriever' because of their ability to retrieve shot game undamaged (soft mouth).

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Great Dane

The Great Dane is a German breed of domestic dog known for its giant size.

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Hair

Hair is a protein filament that grows from follicles found in the dermis.

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Hair follicle

The hair follicle is a dynamic organ found in mammalian skin.

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Hair loss

Hair loss, also known as alopecia or baldness, refers to a loss of hair from part of the head or body.

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Herding dog

A herding dog, also known as a stock dog or working dog, is a type of pastoral dog that either has been trained in herding or belongs to breeds developed for herding.

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Hypoallergenic

Hypoallergenic, meaning "below normal" or "slightly" allergenic, was a term first used in a cosmetics campaign in 1953.

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Hypopigmentation

Hypopigmentation is the loss of skin color.

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Irish Setter

The Irish Setter (sotar rua, literally "red setter") is a setter, a breed of gundog, and family dog.

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Keratin

Keratin is one of a family of fibrous structural proteins.

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Kerry Blue Terrier

The Kerry Blue Terrier (also known as the Irish Blue Terrier) (An Brocaire Gorm) is a breed of dog.

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Labrador Retriever

The Labrador Retriever, or just Labrador, is a type of retriever-gun dog.

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Linoleic acid

Linoleic acid (LA), a carboxylic acid, is a polyunsaturated omega-6 fatty acid, an 18-carbon chain with two double bonds in cis configuration.

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Lipid peroxidation

Lipid peroxidation is the oxidative degradation of lipids.

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List of dog breeds

Dogs have been selectively bred for thousands of years, sometimes by inbreeding dogs from the same ancestral lines, sometimes by mixing dogs from very different lines.

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Liver (color)

At right is displayed the color traditionally called liver.

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Lumina Media

Lumina Media, formerly Fancy Publications, BowTie Inc., and I-5 Publishing, is an American publisher of pet magazines and books.

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Malinois dog

The Malinois is a medium-to-largehttp://www.akc.org/dog-breeds/belgian-malinois/ breed of dog, sometimes classified as a variety of the Belgian Shepherd dog rather than as a separate breed.

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Merle (dog coat)

Merle is a pattern in a dog's coat.

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Miniature Schnauzer

The Miniature Schnauzer is a breed of small dog of the Schnauzer type that originated in Germany in the mid-to-late 19th century.

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Mongrel

A mongrel, mixed-breed dog or mutt is a dog that does not belong to one officially recognized breed and is not the result of intentional breeding.

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Mountain dog

Mountain dog is a generic form of dog, a group of similar or related dog breeds or landraces typically from mountain environs of central Eurasia.

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Neapolitan Mastiff

The Neapolitan Mastiff or Mastino (Mastino Napoletano) is a large, ancient dog breed.

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Newfoundland dog

The Newfoundland dog is a large working dog.

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Omega-3 fatty acid

Omega−3 fatty acids, also called ω−3 fatty acids or n−3 fatty acids, are polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs).

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Otterhound

The Otterhound is an old British dog breed.

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Papillon dog

The Papillon (French for 'butterfly'), also called the Continental Toy Spaniel, is a breed of dog, of the spaniel type.

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Piebald

A piebald or pied animal is one that has a pattern of pigmented spots on an unpigmented (white) background of hair, feathers or scales.

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Polyunsaturated fat

Polyunsaturated fats are fats in which the constituent hydrocarbon chain possesses two or more carbon–carbon double bonds.

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Pomeranian (dog)

The Pomeranian (often known as a Pom) is a breed of dog of the Spitz type that is named for the Pomerania region in north-west Poland and north-east Germany in Central Europe.

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Poodle

The poodle is a group of formal dog breeds, the Standard Poodle, Miniature Poodle and Toy Poodle.

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Pug

The Pug is a breed of dog with physically distinctive features of a wrinkly, short-muzzled face, and curled tail.

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Purebred dog

A purebred dog (or money dog) typically refers to a dog of a modern dog breed with a documented pedigree in a stud book and may be registered with a breed club that may also be part of a national kennel club.

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Rottweiler

The Rottweiler is a breed of domestic dog, regarded as medium-to-large or large.

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Rough Collie

The Rough Collie (also known as the Long-Haired Collie) is a long-coated breed of medium to large size dog that in its original form was a type of collie used and bred for herding in Scotland.

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Selenium in biology

Although it is toxic in large doses, selenium is an essential micronutrient for animals.

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Shetland Sheepdog

The Shetland Sheepdog, also known as the Sheltie, is a breed of herding dog that originated in the Shetland Islands.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster, Inc., a subsidiary of CBS Corporation, is an American publishing company founded in New York City in 1924 by Richard Simon and Max Schuster.

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Sinamaica

Sinamaica is the seat of Páez Municipality, in Zulia State, Venezuela.

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Smooth Collie

The Smooth Collie is a breed of dog developed originally for herding.

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Subspecies of Canis lupus

Canis lupus has 38 subspecies listed in the taxonomic authority Mammal Species of the World, 2005 edition.

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Terrier

A terrier is a dog of any one of many breeds or landraces of the terrier type, which are typically small, wiry and fearless.

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Tuxedo

A tuxedo (American English), or dinner suit (British English), is a semi-formal three or two piece suit for evening wear, distinguished primarily by satin or grosgrain jacket's lapels, and similar stripes along the outseam of the trousers.

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Vitamin

A vitamin is an organic molecule (or related set of molecules) which is an essential micronutrient - that is, a substance which an organism needs in small quantities for the proper functioning of its metabolism - but cannot synthesize it (either at all, or in sufficient quantities), and therefore it must be obtained through the diet.

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Vitamin A

Vitamin A is a group of unsaturated nutritional organic compounds that includes retinol, retinal, retinoic acid, and several provitamin A carotenoids (most notably beta-carotene).

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Vitamin E

Vitamin E is a group of eight compounds that include four tocopherols and four tocotrienols.

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Weimaraner

The Weimaraner is a large dog that was originally bred for hunting in the early 19th century.

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Yorkshire Terrier

The Yorkshire Terrier is a small dog breed of terrier type, developed during the 19th century in Yorkshire, England, to catch rats in clothing mills.

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Zinc

Zinc is a chemical element with symbol Zn and atomic number 30.

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Zygosity

Zygosity is the degree of similarity of the alleles for a trait in an organism.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_(dog)

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