Article
Impact of feralization on evolutionary trajectories in the genomes of feral cat island populations.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2024
Nieto-Blázquez María Esther, Gómez-Suárez Manuela, Pfenninger Markus, Koch Katrin
Abstract excerpt
Feralization is the process of domesticated animals returning to the wild and it is considered the counterpart of domestication. Molecular genetic changes are well documented in domesticated organisms but understudied in feral populations. In this study, the genetic differentiation between domestic and feral cats was inferred by analysing whole-genome sequencing data of two geographically distant feral cat island...
Topics
- Animals
- Cats
- Animals, Wild
- Genome
- Australia
- Genetic Variation
- Islands
- Evolution, Molecular
- Hawaii
- Genetics, Population
- Whole Genome Sequencing
- Domestication
