ArticleBiological journal of the Linnean Society. Linnean Society of London2011
On the origin of a domesticated species: Identifying the parent population of Russian silver foxes (Vulpes vulpes).
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- Gut microbiome community structure correlates with different behavioral phenotypes in the Belyaev Farm-Fox Experiment.Communications biology · 2026Article
- Missing history of a modern domesticate: Historical demographics and genetic diversity in farm-bred red fox populations.The Journal of heredity · 2024Article
- The domestication of the larynx: The neural crest connection.Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2024Article
- The brain of the silver fox (Vulpes vulpes): a neuroanatomical reference of cell-stained histological and MRI images.Brain structure & function · 2023Article
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- Shared reproductive disruption, not neural crest or tameness, explains the domestication syndrome.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Review
- The neural crest/domestication syndrome hypothesis, explained: reply to Johnsson, Henriksen, and Wright.Genetics · 2021Article
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- Four structural variants associated with human-directed sociability in dogs are not found in tame red foxes (Vulpes vulpes).Animal genetics · 2019Article
- Red fox genome assembly identifies genomic regions associated with tame and aggressive behaviours.Nature ecology & evolution · 2018Article
- Complete mitochondrial genome of Pallas's Leaf Warbler (Mitochondrial DNA. Part B, Resources · 2018Article
- Understanding the cryptic introgression and mixed ancestry of Red Junglefowl in India.PloS one · 2018Article
- Y-Chromosome Markers for the Red Fox.The Journal of heredity · 2017Article
- Landscape genetics of the nonnative red fox of California.Ecology and evolution · 2016Article
- The influence of habitat structure on genetic differentiation in red fox populations in north-eastern Poland.Acta theriologica · 2014Article
- Genetics of behavior in the silver fox.Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society · 2012Review
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Abstract
The foxes at Novosibirsk, Russia, are the only population of domesticated foxes in the world. These domesticated foxes originated from farm-bred silver foxes (Vulpes vulpes), whose genetic source is unknown. In this study we examined the origin of the domesticated strain of foxes and two other farm-bred fox populations (aggressive and unselected) maintained in Novosibirsk. To identify the phylogenetic origin of these populations we sequenced two regions of mtDNA, cytochrome b and D-loop, from 24 Novosibirsk foxes (8 foxes from each population) and compared them with corresponding sequences of native red foxes from Europe, Asia, Alaska and Western Canada, Eastern Canada, and the Western Mountains of the USA. We identified seven cytochrome b - D-loop haplotypes in Novosibirsk populations, four of which were previously observed in Eastern North America. The three remaining haplotypes differed by one or two base change from the most common haplotype in Eastern Canada. Φ(ST) analysis showed significant differentiation between Novosibirsk populations and red fox populations from all geographic regions except Eastern Canada. No haplotypes of Eurasian origin were identified in the Novosibirsk populations. These results are consistent with historical records indicating that the original breeding stock of farm-bred foxes originated from Prince Edward Island, Canada. Mitochondrial DNA data together with historical records indicate two stages in the selection of domesticated foxes: the first includes captive breeding for ~50 years with unconscious selection for behaviour; the second corresponds to over 50 further years of intensive selection for tame behaviour.
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