Comparison of village dog and wolf genomes highlights the role of the neural crest in dog domestication

AL Pendleton, F Shen, AM Taravella, S Emery… - BMC biology, 2018 - Springer
Background Domesticated from gray wolves between 10 and 40 kya in Eurasia, dogs
display a vast array of phenotypes that differ from their ancestors, yet mirror other …

Parallel adaptation of rabbit populations to myxoma virus

JM Alves, M Carneiro, JY Cheng, A Lemos de Matos… - Science, 2019 - science.org
In the 1950s the myxoma virus was released into European rabbit populations in Australia
and Europe, decimating populations and resulting in the rapid evolution of resistance. We …

A single introduction of wild rabbits triggered the biological invasion of Australia

JM Alves, M Carneiro, JP Day… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Biological invasions are a major cause of environmental and economic disruption. While
ecological factors are key determinants of their success, the role of genetics has been more …

[PDF][PDF] Domestication of industrial microbes

J Steensels, B Gallone, K Voordeckers, KJ Verstrepen - Current biology, 2019 - cell.com
Domestication refers to artificial selection and breeding of wild species to obtain cultivated
variants that thrive in man-made niches and meet human or industrial requirements. Several …

Domestication as a model system for niche construction theory

MA Zeder - Evolutionary Ecology, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Niche Construction Theory (NCT) provides a powerful conceptual framework for
understanding how and why humans and target species entered into domesticatory …

The genetic basis for ecological adaptation of the Atlantic herring revealed by genome sequencing

A Martinez Barrio, S Lamichhaney, G Fan, N Rafati… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Ecological adaptation is of major relevance to speciation and sustainable population
management, but the underlying genetic factors are typically hard to study in natural …

Function and underlying mechanisms of seasonal colour moulting in mammals and birds: what keeps them changing in a warming world?

M Zimova, K Hackländer, JM Good… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Animals that occupy temperate and polar regions have specialized traits that help them
survive in harsh, highly seasonal environments. One particularly important adaptation is …

Taming the past: ancient DNA and the study of animal domestication

DE MacHugh, G Larson… - Annual Review of Animal …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
During the last decade, ancient DNA research has been revolutionized by the availability of
increasingly powerful DNA sequencing and ancillary genomics technologies, giving rise to …

From rabbit antibody repertoires to rabbit monoclonal antibodies

J Weber, H Peng, C Rader - Experimental & molecular medicine, 2017 - nature.com
In this review, we explain why and how rabbit monoclonal antibodies have become
outstanding reagents for laboratory research and increasingly for diagnostic and therapeutic …

The evolution of white-tailed jackrabbit camouflage in response to past and future seasonal climates

MS Ferreira, TJ Thurman, MR Jones, L Farelo… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The genetic basis of adaptive traits has rarely been used to predict future vulnerability of
populations to climate change. We show that light versus dark seasonal pelage in white …