How does domestication affect the brain? This question has broad relevance. Domesticated
animals play important roles in human society, and substantial recent work has addressed …

Equipped with an early social predisposition immediately post-birth, humans typically form
associations with mothers and other family members through exposure learning, canalized …

Abstract Background Alpaca (Vicugna pacos), llama (Lama glama), vicugna (Vicugna
vicugna) and guanaco (Lama guanicoe), are the camelid species distributed over the …

A central part of the domestication syndrome is a reduction in relative brain size. In chickens,
it has previously been shown that domesticated birds have smaller relative brain mass, but …

Williams syndrome (WS) is a rare multisystemic disorder caused by recurrent microdeletions
on 7q11. 23, characterized by intellectual disability, distinctive craniofacial and dental …

At the molecular level, aging is often accompanied by dysfunction of stress-induced
membrane-less organelles (MLOs) and changes in their physical state (or material …

The critical role of the DNA repair system in preserving the health and survival of living
organisms is widely recognized as dysfunction within this system can result in a broad range …

Aquaculture supplies the world food market with a significant amount of valuable protein.
Highly productive aquaculture fishes can be derived by utilizing genome-editing methods …

Background The formation of the craniofacial complex relies on proper neural crest
development. The gene regulatory networks (GRNs) and signaling pathways orchestrating …

Wolves howl and dogs bark, both are able to produce variants of either vocalization, but we
see a distinct difference in usage between wild and domesticate. Other domesticates also …