The origins of the domesticate brown rat (Rattus norvegicus) and its pathways to domestication

A Hulme-Beaman, D Orton, T Cucchi - Animal Frontiers, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Implications Historical evidence indicates that brown rats went through a series of human-
influenced and/or controlled-breeding events at different times and locations: Japan in the …

Sexual selection in socially-structured, polyandrous populations: some insights from the fowl

T Pizzari, GC McDonald - Advances in the Study of Behavior, 2019 - Elsevier
Sexual selection is widely recognized as the evolutionary agent driving male exaggeration
and strategies of intrasexual competition over reproductive opportunities. Two advances …

Genetic inference of the mating system of free-ranging domestic dogs

E Natoli, R Bonanni, S Cafazzo, DS Mills… - Behavioral …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Domestication has greatly changed the social and reproductive behavior of dogs relative to
that of wild members of the genus Canis, which typically exhibit social monogamy and …