ArticleRoyal Society open science2018
A longitudinal study of phenotypic changes in early domestication of house mice.
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- Shared reproductive disruption, not neural crest or tameness, explains the domestication syndrome.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Review
- The mammalian brain under domestication: Discovering patterns after a century of old and new analyses.Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2022Review
- Whole-genome sequencing reveals the genetic mechanisms of domestication in classical inbred mice.Genome biology · 2022Article
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- The neural crest/domestication syndrome hypothesis, explained: reply to Johnsson, Henriksen, and Wright.Genetics · 2021Article
- Exceptional Changes in Skeletal Anatomy under Domestication: The Case of Brachycephaly.Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
- Exaptation Traits for Megafaunal Mutualisms as a Factor in Plant Domestication.Frontiers in plant science · 2021Article
- Effects of latitude, host body size, and host trophic guild on patterns of diversity of helminths associated with humans, wild and domestic mammals of Mexico.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2020Article
- Morphology does not covary with predicted behavioral correlations of the domestication syndrome in dogs.Evolution letters · 2020Article
- Human domestication and the roles of human agency in human evolution.History and philosophy of the life sciences · 2020Article
- Maladaptation in feral and domesticated animals.Evolutionary applications · 2019Review
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Abstract
Similar phenotypic changes occur across many species as a result of domestication, e.g. in pigmentation and snout size. Experimental studies of domestication have concentrated on intense and directed selection regimes, while conditions that approximate the commensal and indirect interactions with humans have not been explored. We examine long-term data on a free-living population of wild house mice that have been indirectly selected for tameness by regular exposure to humans. In the course of a decade, this mouse population exhibited significantly increased occurrence of white patches of fur and decreased head length. These phenotypic changes fit to the predictions of the 'domestication syndrome'.
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