The borders between cell and developmental biology, which have always been permeable,
have largely dissolved. One manifestation is the blossoming of cilia biology, with cell and …

One of the most common behaviors of cats that have an indoor/outdoor lifestyle is to bring
hunted “gifts” to their owners, represented by small mammals, reptiles and birds. Access to …

Our understanding of population history in deep time has been assisted by fitting admixture
graphs (AGs) to data: models that specify the ordering of population splits and mixtures …

Abstract Background The international Dog10K project aims to sequence and analyze
several thousand canine genomes. Incorporating 20× data from 1987 individuals, including …

When new mutations arise at functional sites they are more likely to impair than improve
fitness. If not removed by purifying selection, such deleterious mutations will generate a …

Selective breeding of domestic dogs has generated diverse breeds often optimized for
performing specialized tasks. Despite the heritability of breed-typical behavioral traits …

f-statistics have emerged as a first line of analysis for making inferences about demographic
history from genome-wide data. Not only are they guaranteed to allow robust tests of the fits …

Introduction Growing concerns over health and welfare impacts from extreme phenotypes in
dogs have created an urgent need for reliable demographic information on the national …

Southeastern Canada is inhabited by an amalgam of hybridizing wolf-like canids, raising
fundamental questions regarding their taxonomy, origins, and timing of hybridization events …

Deciphering the origins of phenotypic variations in natural animal populations is a
challenging topic for evolutionary and conservation biologists. Atypical morphologies in …