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Mapping Loci for fox domestication: deconstruction/reconstruction of a behavioral phenotype.
Behavior genetics - 1 Jul 2011
Kukekova Anna V, Trut Lyudmila N, Chase Kevin, Kharlamova Anastasiya V, Johnson Jennifer L, Temnykh Svetlana V, Oskina Irina N, Gulevich Rimma G, Vladimirova Anastasiya V, Klebanov Simon, Shepeleva Darya V, Shikhevich Svetlana G, Acland Gregory M, Lark Karl G
Abstract excerpt
During the second part of the twentieth century, Belyaev selected tame and aggressive foxes (Vulpes vulpes), in an effort known as the "farm-fox experiment", to recapitulate the process of animal domestication. Using these tame and aggressive foxes as founders of segregant backcross and intercros...
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