The history of farm foxes undermines the animal domestication syndrome

KA Lord, G Larson, RP Coppinger… - Trends in ecology & …, 2020 - cell.com
The Russian Farm-Fox Experiment is the best known experimental study in animal
domestication. By subjecting a population of foxes to selection for tameness alone, Dimitry …

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 …

Comparative genomics uncovers the evolutionary history, demography, and molecular adaptations of South American canids

DE Chavez, I Gronau, T Hains… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The remarkable radiation of South American (SA) canids produced 10 extant species
distributed across diverse habitats, including disparate forms such as the short-legged …

Evolutionary origin of genomic structural variations in domestic yaks

X Liu, W Liu, JA Lenstra, Z Zheng, X Wu, J Yang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Yak has been subject to natural selection, human domestication and interspecific
introgression during its evolution. However, genetic variants favored by each of these …

Dosage analysis of the 7q11.23 Williams region identifies BAZ1B as a major human gene patterning the modern human face and underlying self-domestication

M Zanella, A Vitriolo, A Andirko, PT Martins, S Sturm… - Science …, 2019 - science.org
We undertook a functional dissection of chromatin remodeler BAZ1B in neural crest (NC)
stem cells (NCSCs) from a uniquely informative cohort of typical and atypical patients …

The genomic footprints of the fall and recovery of the crested ibis

S Feng, QI Fang, R Barnett, C Li, S Han, M Kuhlwilm… - Current Biology, 2019 - cell.com
Human-induced environmental change and habitat fragmentation pose major threats to
biodiversity and require active conservation efforts to mitigate their consequences. Genetic …

Dog10K: an international sequencing effort to advance studies of canine domestication, phenotypes and health

EA Ostrander, GD Wang, G Larson… - National science …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Dogs are the most phenotypically diverse mammalian species, and they possess more
known heritable disorders than any other non-human mammal. Efforts to catalog and …

Allele frequency dynamics in a pedigreed natural population

N Chen, I Juric, EJ Cosgrove… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
A central goal of population genetics is to understand how genetic drift, natural selection,
and gene flow shape allele frequencies through time. However, the actual processes …

Epimutations in developmental genes underlie the onset of domestication in farmed European sea bass

D Anastasiadi, F Piferrer - Molecular Biology and Evolution, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Domestication of wild animals induces a set of phenotypic characteristics collectively known
as the domestication syndrome. However, how this syndrome emerges is still not clear …

Genomic responses to selection for tame/aggressive behaviors in the silver fox (Vulpes vulpes)

X Wang, L Pipes, LN Trut, Y Herbeck… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Animal domestication efforts have led to a shared spectrum of striking behavioral and
morphological changes. To recapitulate this process, silver foxes have been selectively bred …