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The History of Farm Foxes Undermines the Animal Domestication Syndrome.
Trends in ecology & evolution - 1 Feb 2020
Lord Kathryn A, Larson Greger, Coppinger Raymond P, Karlsson Elinor K
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The Russian Farm-Fox Experiment is the best known experimental study in animal domestication. By subjecting a population of foxes to selection for tameness alone, Dimitry Belyaev generated foxes that possessed a suite of characteristics that mimicked those found across domesticated species. This 'domestication syndrome' has been a central focus of research into the biological pathways modified during...
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