Sentences with phrase «occurred during the domestication»

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.

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].

Not exact matches

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).

This allowed us to pinpoint the genetic changes that have occurred during rabbit domestication, says SciLifeLab faculty member Leif Andersson.

Several domestication events likely occurred during this time, although these may have occurred more at the instigation of the ever - adaptable cat than by any specific selective strategy of human residents.