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The genomics of the domestication syndrome in a songbird model species.
Communications biology - 3 Jun 2025
Farias-Virgens Madza, Peede David, Deacon Terrence, Okanoya Kazuo, White Stephanie A, Huerta-Sanchez Emilia
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Many domesticated animals share a syndromic phenotype marked by a suite of traits that include more variable patterns of coloration, reduced stress, aggression, and altered risk-taking and exploratory behaviors relative to their wild counterparts. Roughly 150 years after Darwin's pioneering insight into this phenomenon, reasonable progress has been made in understanding the evolutionary and biological basis of...
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