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The domestication of vertebrates is the mutual relationship between vertebrate animals including birds and mammals, and the humans who have influence on...

Self-domestication is a scientific hypothesis that suggests that, similar to domesticated animals, there has been a process of artificial selection among...

Domestication syndrome refers to two sets of phenotypic traits that are common to either domesticated plants or domesticated animals. Domesticated animals...

example of a domestic animal that likely travelled a commensal pathway into domestication. The questions of when and where dogs were first domesticated have...

(2010) consider the domestication of western honey bees, at best, partial. Oldroyd observes that the lack of full domestication is somewhat surprising...

fastest known class of vertebrate muscles, contracting as much as 10 times faster than muscles vertebrates use for running. This class of muscles is usually...

two hypotheses about its domestication; one said that there were two foci for domestication, one in the Lacandon Jungle area of Mexico and another in lowland...

first domesticated from red junglefowl ca. 8,000 years ago, with this domestication-event involving multiple maternal origins. Since then, the domestic...

share between 71 and 79% of their genome with red junglefowl. According to one early study, a single domestication event of the red junglefowl in present-day...

upon the domestication of dogs. In the two-part documentary, she was called upon multiple times to give insight into the process of domestication and the...

Felidae. Recent advances in archaeology and genetics have shown that the domestication of the cat occurred in the Near East around 7500 BC. It is commonly kept...

in addition to fungi, invertebrates, eggs, carrion, fish, and small vertebrates like rodents, small birds, frogs, lizards, and snakes. Although all ratites...

a large fowl, one of the two species in the genus Meleagris and the same species as the wild turkey. Although turkey domestication was thought to have...

in religions of the ancient Near East. Its horns were used in votive offerings, as trophies and drinking horns. Two aurochs domestication events occurred...

study of an animal population modeling according to human domestication needs. The current group of domesticated silver foxes are the result of nearly...

species are domesticated. Although relatively few genes control domestication, and wild and domesticated forms are interfertile, wild and domesticated wheats...

their parents. The silver fox is a melanistic form of the wild red fox. Though rare, domestication has been documented in silver foxes. The most notable...

of the African fauna. The muskox is confined to the arctic tundra. Several bovid species have been domesticated by human beings. The domestication of...

domestication of papaya Yh chromosome". Genome Research. 25 (4): 524–533. doi:10.1101/gr.183905.114. PMC 4381524. PMID 25762551. "Biological Basis of...

hagfish and lampreys. Jawed vertebrates appeared 100 million years later, in the Silurian. http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/vertebrates/vertintro.html Berkeley...