Selective breeding of the domestic dog ( Canis lupus familiaris ) rigidly retains desirable features, and could inadvertently fix disease-causing variants within a breed. We combine phenotypic data from > 72,000 dogs with a large genotypic dataset to search for genes associated with cancer mortality and longevity in pedigree dog breeds. We validated previous findings that breeds with higher average body weight have higher canc...

A synoptic climatology using mean sea level pressure and 500‐ hPa geopotential height composites is conducted for strong along‐channel winds that occur through five of the channels dissecting British Columbia's coast. Seasonal (winter, summer) and directional (inflow, air moving from the coast inland; outflow, air moving from inland towards the coast) partitioning of the winds, results in four distinct along‐channel winds that...