Museum genomics

DC Card, B Shapiro, G Giribet, C Moritz… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Natural history collections are invaluable repositories of biological information that provide
an unrivaled record of Earth's biodiversity. Museum genomics—genomics research using …

[HTML][HTML] Comparing wolves and dogs: current status and implications for human 'self-domestication'

F Range, S Marshall-Pescini - Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2022 - cell.com
Based on claims that dogs are less aggressive and show more sophisticated socio-cognitive
skills compared with wolves, dog domestication has been invoked to support the idea that …

Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular breed stereotypes

K Morrill, J Hekman, X Li, J McClure, B Logan… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Behavioral genetics in dogs has focused on modern breeds, which are isolated subgroups
with distinctive physical and, purportedly, behavioral characteristics. We interrogated breed …

On the limits of fitting complex models of population history to f-statistics

R Maier, P Flegontov, O Flegontova, U Işıldak… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Grey wolf genomic history reveals a dual ancestry of dogs

A Bergström, DWG Stanton, UH Taron, L Frantz… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The grey wolf (Canis lupus) was the first species to give rise to a domestic population, and
they remained widespread throughout the last Ice Age when many other large mammal …

Dog domestication and the dual dispersal of people and dogs into the Americas

AR Perri, TR Feuerborn, LAF Frantz… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Advances in the isolation and sequencing of ancient DNA have begun to reveal the
population histories of both people and dogs. Over the last 10,000 y, the genetic signatures …

[HTML][HTML] Genome sequencing of 2000 canids by the Dog10K consortium advances the understanding of demography, genome function and architecture

JRS Meadows, JM Kidd, GD Wang, HG Parker… - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background The international Dog10K project aims to sequence and analyze
several thousand canine genomes. Incorporating 20× data from 1987 individuals, including …

[HTML][HTML] Amino acid nutrition and metabolism in domestic cats and dogs

P Li, G Wu - Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology, 2023 - Springer
Domestic cats and dogs are carnivores that have evolved differentially in the nutrition and
metabolism of amino acids. This article highlights both proteinogenic and nonproteinogenic …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing the selection and performance of working dogs

EE Bray, CM Otto, MAR Udell, NJ Hall… - Frontiers in veterinary …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Dogs perform a variety of integral roles in our society, engaging in work ranging from
assistance (eg service dogs, guide dogs) and therapy to detection (eg search and rescue …

[HTML][HTML] Functionally analogous body- and animacy-responsive areas are present in the dog (Canis familiaris) and human occipito-temporal lobe

M Boch, IC Wagner, S Karl, L Huber… - Communications …, 2023 - nature.com
Comparing the neural correlates of socio-cognitive skills across species provides insights
into the evolution of the social brain and has revealed face-and body-sensitive regions in the …