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Artificial selection on brain-expressed genes during the domestication of dog.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Aug 2013
Li Yan, Vonholdt Bridgett M, Reynolds Andy, Boyko Adam R, Wayne Robert K, Wu Dong-Dong, Zhang Ya-Ping
Abstract excerpt
Domesticated dogs have many unique behaviors not found in gray wolves that have augmented their interaction and communication with humans. The genetic basis of such unique behaviors in dogs remains poorly understood. We found that genes within regions highly differentiated between outbred Chinese native dogs (CNs) and wolves show high bias for expression localized to brain tissues, particularly the prefrontal...
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