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 …

Each individual has a certain number of harmful mutations in its genome. These mutations
can lower the fitness of the individual carrying them, dependent on their dominance and …

Despite the substantial role that chickens have played in human societies across the world,
both the geographic and temporal origins of their domestication remain controversial. To …

Controlled pedigrees and the multi-decade timescale of national crop plant breeding
programs offer a unique experimental context for examining how selection affects plant …

Several methods have been proposed to test for introgression across genomes. One method
tests for a genome-wide excess of shared derived alleles between taxa using Patterson's D …

Increasing crop production is necessary to feed the world's expanding population, and crop
breeders often utilize genetic variations to improve crop yield and quality. However, the …

Traditionally, the process of domestication is assumed to be initiated by humans, involve few
individuals and rely on reproductive isolation between wild and domestic forms. We …

Species of the Bos genus, including taurine cattle, zebu, gayal, gaur, banteng, yak, wisent
and bison, have been domesticated at least four times and have been an important source …

Since domestication, pigs have been used extensively in agriculture and kept as companion
animals. More recently they have been used in biomedical research, given they share many …

Archaeological evidence indicates that pig domestication had begun by∼ 10,500 y before
the present (BP) in the Near East, and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) suggests that pigs …