Sarabi dog

The Sarabi dog, also known as the Bewada Dog (in India) & Iranian shepherd dog, Persian mastiff, or Iranian mastiff, is a breed of livestock guardian dog from the East Azerbaijan Province in northern Iran, taking their name from the Sarab County.[1][2][3] Sarabi dogs have been used for centuries by local shepherds to protect herds of sheep and goats from bears, wolves, jackals and other local predators. Persian mastiff is calm, controlled, independent, powerful and protective, the breed is also used to complete in staged dog fights.[1][2] The breed is considered one of the oldest and most powerful indigenous dog breeds in Iran, the larger and heavier an individual dog is, the greater its value.[1][2]

Sarabi dog
Common nicknamesSarabi mastiff
Iranian mastiff
Persian mastiff
Iranian shepherd dog
OriginIran
Traits
Coat Short, with undercoat
Colour Fawn, sable, black
Life span 12-17 years
Dog (domestic dog)

The Sarabi dog has been included in some of the recent genetics and genomics research.[4][5][6][7][8]

See also

References
  1. Montazery, M.; Masoudi, A. A.; Vaez Torshizi, R. (2016). "Microsatellite loci analysis for the genetic variability and paternal lineages in Iranian native dogs" (PDF). Journal of Livestock Science and Technologies. 4 (1): 61–70. doi:10.22103/JLST.2016.1383 (inactive 2021-01-14). Retrieved 14 August 2020.CS1 maint: DOI inactive as of January 2021 (link)
  2. Parsa, Farid (11 September 2018). "Iranian dogs in history". The Iranian. Iranian LLC. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
  3. Taefehshokr, Sina; Key, Yashar; Maleki, Mehrdad (September 2014). "Survey on Iran's breeds of dogs". Journal of Veterinary Medicine (in Persian). Tabriz: Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Islamic Azad University (21): 15. Retrieved 20 May 2020.
  4. Amiri Ghanatsaman, Zeinab; Adeola, Adeniyi C.; Asadi Fozi, Masood; Ma, Ya-Ping; Peng, Min-Sheng; Wang, Guo-Dong; Esmailizadeh, Ali; Zhang, Ya-Ping (2018). "Mitochondrial DNA sequence variation in Iranian native dogs". Mitochondrial DNA Part A. 29 (3): 394–402. doi:10.1080/24701394.2017.1289375. PMID 28303732. S2CID 4310976.
  5. Amiri Ghanatsaman, Zeinab; Wang, Guo-Dong; Asadollahpour Nanaei, Hojjat; Asadi Fozi, Masood; Peng, Min-Sheng; Esmailizadeh, Ali; Zhang, Ya-Ping (2020). "Whole genome resequencing of the Iranian native dogs and wolves to unravel variome during dog domestication". BMC Genomics. 21 (1): 207. doi:10.1186/s12864-020-6619-8. PMC 7057629. PMID 32131720.
  6. Amiri Ghanatsaman, Zeinab; Wang, Guo-Dong; Asadi Fozi, Masood; Zhang, Ya-Ping; Esmailizadeh, Ali (2020). "Genome resequencing data for Iranian local dogs and wolves". BMC Research Notes. 13 (1): 436. doi:10.1186/s13104-020-05271-3. PMC 7493879. PMID 32938490.
  7. http://mg.genetics.ir/article-1-39-fa.html
  8. https://ijas.ut.ac.ir/article_59032.html


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