The domestication of animals led to a major shift in human subsistence patterns, from a
hunter–gatherer to a sedentary agricultural lifestyle, which ultimately resulted in the …

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 …

Dogs were the first domestic animal, but little is known about their population history and to
what extent it was linked to humans. We sequenced 27 ancient dog genomes and found that …

Advances in the isolation and sequencing of ancient DNA have begun to reveal the
population histories of both people and dogs. Over the last 10,000 y, the genetic signatures …

The geographic and temporal origins of dogs remain controversial. We generated genetic
sequences from 59 ancient dogs and a complete (28x) genome of a late Neolithic dog …

Europe has played a major role in dog evolution, harbouring the oldest uncontested
Palaeolithic remains and having been the centre of modern dog breed creation. Here we …

Domestic cats and dogs are carnivores that have evolved differentially in the nutrition and
metabolism of amino acids. This article highlights both proteinogenic and nonproteinogenic …

During the last decade, ancient DNA research has been revolutionized by the availability of
increasingly powerful DNA sequencing and ancillary genomics technologies, giving rise to …

Abstract The Bonn-Oberkassel dog remains (Upper Pleistocene and 14223+-58 years old)
have been reported more than 100 years ago. Recent re-examination revealed the tooth of …

Abstract Excavations on the Zhokhov Island yielded a small but meaningful collection of
Early Holocene canine faunal remains (MNI= 13). To clarify the morphological …