How does domestication affect the brain? This question has broad relevance. Domesticated
animals play important roles in human society, and substantial recent work has addressed …

Altered neural crest cell (NCC) behaviour is an increasingly cited explanation for the
domestication syndrome in animals. However, recent authors have questioned this …

Synopsis “Brachycephaly” is generally considered a phenotype in which the facial part of the
head is pronouncedly shortened. While brachycephaly is characteristic for some domestic …

Domestic animals are ubiquitous. In contrast to the biodiversity crisis currently impacting
many kinds of animals and plants, not a single domesticated species is endangered …

The Russian farm-fox experiment is an unusually long-running and well-controlled study
designed to replicate wolf-to-dog domestication. As such, it offers an unprecedented window …

Abstract 2D images view hardly measurement points due to the overlap of anatomical
features. This challenge is overcome by 3D modelling. In particular, images obtained by …

This study aimed to explain the sex determination of the autochthonous dog Deltari Ilir with
both morphometric and geometric analysis methods. For this purpose, 24 Deltari Ilir dog …

Although the silver fox (Vulpes vulpes) has been largely overlooked by neuroscientists, it
has the potential to serve as a powerful model for the investigation of brain-behavior …

The natural abundance of heavy stable isotopes (13C, 15N, 18O, etc.) is now of
considerable importance in many research fields, including human physiology. In fact, it …

The neural crest hypothesis posits that selection for tameness resulted in mild alterations to
neural crest cells during embryonic development, which directly or indirectly caused the …