The goals of this CURE focused on dogs are to engage majors biology students, non-majors biology students, as
well as high school students in both biology and agriculture courses in an authentic research experience and to
expose them to biotechnology careers. The CURE was designed in collaboration with a local Biotechnology
company Neogen that does genomic testing of companion animals and livestock. This dog-centered CURE
allows students to swab their own dogs and analyze a specific gene locus on Chromosome 6, which is
hypothesized to be correlated to how attached a dog is to their owner(s); a behavior called hypersociability.
Students analyze their dog?s data to determine if there is a correlation between genotype and the
hypersociability phenotype. Students also analyze a larger sample size from the national database to make a
conclusion about whether or not this gene locus should be used by the industry when testing dog DNA.
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