Sentences with phrase «studying domestication»

«This is the closest thing to a smoking gun we've ever had,» says Greger Larson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom who has studied the domestication of pigs, dogs, and other animals.

Greger Larson, a biologist at the University of Oxford who studies domestication, recalled hearing about Pope Gregory at a conference a few years ago.

Not exact matches

«The gelada case is comparable to what early domestication of dogs might have been like,» study researcher Claudio Sillero, of the University of Oxford, told New Scientist's Bob Holmes.

Researcher Pamela Burger, who heads one of the few research groups to study camel genetics, was interested in learning about the domestication of camels which took place around 3,000 to 6,000 years ago.

By Kraig Kraft The Search for the Origins of Chile Peppers Starts in Arizona As a graduate student studying crop evolution at U.C. Davis, I am focusing my work on describing the genetic changes that took place during the domestication of Capsicum annuum, a species that includes some of the most common varieties of chile peppers cultivated worldwide.

The completed sequencing of the seven wild rice varieties is a significant progress to drive further genome evolution and domestication,» explained Dr. Rod Wing, leader of the International Oryza Map Alignment Project (IOMAP), an AXA Chair holder at the International Rice Research Institute, Professor at the University of Arizona, and one of the lead scientists in the study.

Now, a new study of wild mice shows that they, too, can develop signs of domestication — white fur patches and short snouts — with hardly any human influence.

Not only does the legend offer little logic for rabbits being fish, but the proclamation itself is bogus, according to a new study of rabbit domestication.

A claim of multiple domestications for dogs requires extraordinary evidence, says study coauthor Krishna Veeramah, an evolutionary geneticist at Stony Brook University in New York.

The study, published in the journal G3: Genes Genomes Genetics, adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting that domestication alters animals» reactivity to stress.

«Study links fox domestication to gene activity in the pituitary gland.»

To get a better view of how this might occur, the researchers looked at gene activity in the anterior pituitary glands of foxes in a breeding program at the Institute of Cytology and Genetics in Novosibirsk, Russia, designed to study the evolutionary processes associated with domestication.

The study links fox domestication to changes in gene activity in the pituitary gland, a brain center that kicks out hormones to regulate various bodily functions, including the stress response.

A large - scale study of ancient feline DNA charts the domestication and global spread of house cats

Previous studies based on the genetics of modern horses concluded that domestication must have squeezed out much of the diversity seen in wild horses before the Ice Age.

The domestication of dogs may have inadvertently caused harmful genetic changes, a UCLA - led study suggests.

A 2016 paleogenetic study found two doggie domestication events perhaps 14,000 years ago: one in Europe and a second in East Asia.

Pipes» study is an interesting example of what might have happened to dogs» brains during domestication, he said.

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.

Recent genetic studies have placed ground zero for dog domestication in Europe, Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia or Southeast Asia.

The genome data set generated in the study also reveals important lessons for the history of horse management, which started some 5,500 years ago, and animal domestication as a whole.

The over-representation detected in our study supports the neural crest as key to animal domestication and to the rise of common domestic traits in independent animal lineages,» concludes Professor Ludovic Orlando.

The study reveals that the diversity of coat colors in horses has been strongly affected by cultural differences since their initial domestication around 3,500 BC.

This study demonstrates just how easy it is to drive a trait to a high frequency in an evolutionary blink of an eye, and suggests that simply because a domestic trait is ubiquitous, it may not have been a target for selection at the very beginning of the domestication process,» said author Greger Larson.

The results of a second study suggest that soon after domestication dogs began accompanying humans on long journeys.

Other studies at the meeting confirmed that domestication lengthens development, with important consequences for behavior.

The fact that Mexican turkeys were being transported between 650 to 950 kilometers outside of their natural range as early as 300 B.C.E., say Thornton and colleagues in a study published today in PLoS ONE, suggests that turkey domestication in Mexico may have begun centuries earlier than previously thought.

In their present study, they asked whether dogs also possess this skill or if this form of numerical competence was lost through domestication.

«We observed that a large number of genes were involved in pathways related to wound healing, immunity, and metabolism, and this is consistent with the idea that the earliest stages of domestication may involve adapting to highly crowded conditions,» said Mark Christie, lead author of the study.

The study successfully demonstrates the ability of ancient DNA studies to provide new insights into archaic rice diversity and domestication, which otherwise have not been made from DNA evidence solely from modern rice.

Study provides earliest evidence of animal domestication and treatment in early Latin America

Given that certain wolves carry the «friendly» mutations, the study suggests the domestication of dogs began with friendlier individual wolves.

Providing a platform for future studies into biomedicine, evolution and the domestication of important animals including dogs, cows, horses and pigs.

«The results of our study suggest that domestication has affected the causal understanding of our dogs,» says Lampe.

This discovery provides a significant opportunity not only to enhance our understanding of how miRNAs regulate a variety of biological processes in an important model species for studying human diseases, but can lead to further, similar research into the role that miRNAs play in animal domestication.

Posted June 4 at arXiv.org, the new study finds that interbreeding between dogs and wolves after domestication has made wolves in certain locations seem more closely related to dogs than they actually are.

Using only breed dogs and wolves, a previous study identified 36 candidate domestication loci30 (Supplementary Table 18).

It's too soon to know just how important the genes identified in the study were in dog domestication, cautioned Ray Coppinger, during an interview with Inside Science.

Wynne can't say for sure whether the domestication process happened at multiple villages at different times, or if it happened just once, as indicated by another recent study that looked at DNA from ancient dog fossils.

This means that by studying the effect of genetic changes during the domestication of dogs we can also learn about our own species» adaptations to the environment and related diseases.

-- No previous study on animal domestication has involved such a careful examination of genetic variation in the wild ancestral species.

«This demonstrates that horse domestication involved two different colour morphs (Dun and non-dun1) and future studies of ancient DNA will be able to reveal the geographic distribution and the abundance of the two morphs», said Leif Andersson.

That would explain why earlier DNA studies reported that all modern dogs were descended from one domestication event, and also the existence of evidence of two domestication event from two different far - flung locations.

The scholarly work on dog domestication is quite voluminous; below are listed a few of the most recent studies.

Based on observations of a group of three young female Somali wild asses at the Saint Louis Zoo, the study provides new insight into the species» social behavior in a captive setting — a relatively good proxy environment for the early phases of wild animal domestication.

The study, published by Springer in the Animal Cognition journal, suggests that the reason for cats» unresponsive behaviour might be traced back to the early domestication of the species, contrasting this with the relationship of humans to dogs.

In an earlier study, vonHoldt had identified a gene that's mutated more often in dogs than wolves — one that possibly led to their domestication.

«We find that hyper - sociability, a central feature of WBS, is also a core element of domestication that distinguishes dogs from wolves,» the study concluded.

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The theory put forth in one study is that cats are still in the process of domestication, and are not yet fully domesticated.