Sentences with phrase «during their domestication from»

During their domestication from their wild ancestor the wolf to the pets we have today, dogs have developed a unique ability to work together with humans.

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Much of what we know about how animals change appearance during domestication comes from a famous experiment in Siberia in the 1950s.

Xin Liu, Project Manager from BGI, said «This study not only generates valuable genomic resource including additional wild reference genome, genome - wide variations for further studies and breeding applications on cucumber, but also gave us a better picture about how the cucumber genome evolved during domestication.

Many of our ideas about domestication derive from Charles Darwin, whose ideas in turn were strongly influenced by British animal - breeding practices during the 19th century, a period when landowners vigorously pursued systematic livestock improvement.

This suggests that restocking from a wild population descendant from the ancient horses occurred during the domestication processes that ultimately led to the modern domesticated horses.

In 1959, biologists Dmitri Belyaev and Lyudmila Trut set out to do just that, by starting with a few dozen silver foxes from fox farms during the Soviet era and attempting to recreate the evolution of wolves into dogs in real time in order to witness the process of domestication.

«These associations support the hypothesis that Nosema escaped into wild populations from heavily infected commercial colonies, at least during the earlier years of bumble bee domestication in the U.S.,» she said.

Wolves were domesticated more than 15,000 years ago and it is widely assumed that the ability of domestic dogs to form close relationships with humans stems from changes during the domestication process.

The evidence that the SWEET4c gene was selected during domestication was discovered by the team of Jeff Ross - Ibarra at UC Davis, while comparing SWEET4 sequences from modern maize against its wild ancestor Teosinte.

This admixture could have occurred before domestication or during the early stages of the domestication process, following restocking from the wild as previously suggested (13, 32, 33).

Flink et al. (2014) typed the TSHR and BCDO2 loci in archaeological chicken samples from Europe, spanning the last 2,200 years, to further examine the hypothesis of selection during early domestication.

The loss of genetic diversity in purebred dogs can be attributed to two major population bottleneck events: the first occurring during domestication; and the second arising from breed formation where the repeated use of popular sires, line breeding, breeding for specific phenotypic traits, and promotion of the breed barrier rule, contributed to overall loss in genetic variation [15 - 19].