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Effect of Canine Oxytocin Receptor Gene Polymorphism on the Successful Training of Drug Detection Dogs.
The Journal of heredity - 27 Jun 2018
Konno Akitsugu, Inoue-Murayama Miho, Yabuta Shinji, Tonoike Akiko, Nagasawa Miho, Mogi Kazutaka, Kikusui Takefumi
Abstract excerpt
Drug detection dogs can be trained to locate various prohibited drugs with targeted odors, and they play an important role in the interdiction of drug smuggling in human society. Recent studies provide the interesting hypothesis that the oxytocin system serves as a biological basis for co-evolution between dogs and humans. Here, we offer the new possibility that genetic variation of the canine oxytocin receptor...
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