The evolution of animal domestication

G Larson, DQ Fuller - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The domestication of plants and animals over the past 11,500 years has had a significant
effect not just on the domesticated taxa but also on human evolution and on the biosphere …

Molecular genetic variation of animals and plants under domestication

L Andersson, M Purugganan - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Domesticated plants and animals played crucial roles as models for evolutionary change by
means of natural selection and for establishing the rules of inheritance, originally proposed …

Ancestry-inclusive dog genomics challenges popular breed stereotypes

K Morrill, J Hekman, X Li, J McClure, B Logan… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Behavioral genetics in dogs has focused on modern breeds, which are isolated subgroups
with distinctive physical and, purportedly, behavioral characteristics. We interrogated breed …

Whole genome sequencing of canids reveals genomic regions under selection and variants influencing morphology

J Plassais, J Kim, BW Davis, DM Karyadi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Domestic dog breeds are characterized by an unrivaled diversity of morphologic traits and
breed-associated behaviors resulting from human selective pressures. To identify the …

Genome sequencing of 2000 canids by the Dog10K consortium advances the understanding of demography, genome function and architecture

JRS Meadows, JM Kidd, GD Wang, HG Parker… - Genome biology, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Background The international Dog10K project aims to sequence and analyze
several thousand canine genomes. Incorporating 20× data from 1987 individuals, including …

[HTML][HTML] Genome sequencing highlights the dynamic early history of dogs

AH Freedman, I Gronau, RM Schweizer… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
To identify genetic changes underlying dog domestication and reconstruct their early
evolutionary history, we generated high-quality genome sequences from three gray wolves …

An intercross population study reveals genes associated with body size and plumage color in ducks

Z Zhou, M Li, H Cheng, W Fan, Z Yuan, Q Gao… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Comparative population genomics offers an opportunity to discover the signatures of
artificial selection during animal domestication, however, their function cannot be directly …

PoPoolation2: identifying differentiation between populations using sequencing of pooled DNA samples (Pool-Seq)

R Kofler, RV Pandey, C Schlötterer - Bioinformatics, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Sequencing pooled DNA samples (Pool-Seq) is the most cost-effective approach for the
genome-wide comparison of population samples. Here, we introduce PoPoolation2, the first …

Rethinking dog domestication by integrating genetics, archeology, and biogeography

G Larson, EK Karlsson, A Perri… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
The dog was the first domesticated animal but it remains uncertain when the domestication
process began and whether it occurred just once or multiple times across the Northern …

Genome-wide association mapping including phenotypes from relatives without genotypes

H Wang, I Misztal, I Aguilar, A Legarra… - Genetics Research, 2012 - cambridge.org
A common problem for genome-wide association analysis (GWAS) is lack of power for
detection of quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and precision for fine mapping. Here, we present a …