Focal chondral lesions of the knee are the most frequent type of trauma in younger patients
and are associated with a high risk of developing early posttraumatic osteoarthritis. The only …

Background Rabbit can produce meat, fur and leather, and serves as an important
biomedical animal model. Understanding the microbial community of rabbits helps to raise …

There has been a recent resurgence of interest in the hypothesis that anatomically modern
humans and domesticated species have followed convergent evolutionary paths. Here, we …

Abstract Background Dogs [Canis lupus familiaris] were the first animal species to be
domesticated and continue to occupy an important place in human societies. Recent studies …

The Atlantic herring is one of the most abundant vertebrates on earth but its nucleotide
diversity is moderate (π= 0.3%), only three-fold higher than in human. Here, we present a …

Background Copy number variation (CNV) represents an important source of genetic
divergence that can produce drastic phenotypic differences and may therefore be subject to …

Our 2014 hypothesis, published in GENETICS, aimed to elucidate a set of traits associated
with mammalian domestication, a phenomenon termed the “domestication syndrome.” Our …

Having one or more non-human animals in our company became a steadily growing custom
around the world. The terminology that describes these non-consumable animals …

Interbreeding between hatchery-reared and wild fish, through deliberate stocking or
escapes from fish farms, can result in rapid phenotypic and gene expression changes in …

A high‐quality reference genome is necessary to determine the molecular mechanisms
underlying important biological phenomena; therefore, in the present study, a chromosome …