Sentences with phrase «domesticated animal hosts»

As people move into formerly wild areas, local pathogens increasingly come into contact with new domesticated animal hosts — freshly arrived pigs, chickens, horses — and, eventually, humans.

Not exact matches

The new study offers «yet another piece of information» that selecting for changes in behavior can trigger a host of other changes in domesticated animals, says Greger Larson, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, who was not involved with the work.