Sentences with phrase «wild ancestors»

Wild ancestors of the modern dog, such as wolves, rarely bark.

Dogs evolved from wild ancestors who had to compete for food, nesting sites and mates to survive.

As with all domestic animals, the house cat had wild ancestors who had to work hard to survive in nature.

Although dog's wild ancestors did chew and eat bones of their prey and possibly even chewed on sticks, it is not advisable to allow your pup to chew bones and sticks for a variety of reasons.

Botanists are combing the planet for wild ancestors of soybeans, tomatoes, hard wheat, and grapes, believed to contain valuable genes for drought tolerance and other characteristics, but much diversity has already been lost.

After thousands of years of inadvertent selection for «tameness» the camp wolves started to become dependent on their human hosts and to even look different to their still wild ancestors.

DNA analysis shows this is where cats» wild ancestors likely originated.

Because I think [a] lot of [times] people think domesticating them means we went out we took the original wild ancestors, and we sort of broke them to our ways, you know, did the equivalent of animal enslavement.

The main wild ancestor of today's chickens, the red junglefowl Gallus gallus is endemic to sub-Himalayan northern India, southern China and Southeast Asia, where chickens were first domesticated 6,000 - 8,000 years ago.

While our canines» wild ancestors survived on raw meat and bones for the past 40 million years, a raw diet is an approach that has only started growing popularity in recent years.

Though your dog's wild ancestors wolfed down pounds upon pounds of fatty meat, your Labrador is not equipped to eat tantalizing strips of fried pig fat — in fact, there are no health benefits to feeding Fido a piece of crispy bacon.

The Urus is one of the large, wild ancestors of domestic cattle.

This substantial input of variation from wild ancestors has provided the raw material for phenotypic change, but unique development and genetic mechanisms may also have assisted the course of artificial selection.

While almost all large domesticated mammals have wild ancestors who lived in herds with highly social behaviors and well - defined hierarchical relationships, neither wild asses nor Grevy's is reported to be social in the wild.

After hundreds or thousands of years of inadvertent selection for «tameness» the camp wolves started to become dependent on their human hosts and to even look different to their still wild ancestors.

Native to northern Mexico and southwest Texas, where it is known as Chiltepin or Chiltecpin, this species is the wild ancestor of many of our cultivated chile peppers.

They're counting on the genes of the peanut's wild ancestors to unlock the plant's next evolutionary stage.

The Blue Wilderness brand is designed to appeal to your dog's wild ancestors — and though your Shih Tzu may seem very little like the wolves in their ancestry, they can still appreciate a kibble packed with high - quality proteins!

Their offspring was atypical — a freak of nature that couldn't remix with its wild ancestors and cousins.

In nearly all cases of fruit domestication, the wild ancestor has tiny fruit that were shaped into their large, nutritious cultivated counterpart through centuries of selection.

And by comparing the wild ancestor — the tamed junglefowl — with the fully domesticated chicken, it may be possible to get at the genetic basis of these trait changes, he says.

But their flexible diet and nocturnal habits are unlike those of either wild ancestor.

The aim is to replay domestication to determine the genetic underpinnings that set domesticated animals apart from their wild ancestors.

Now, an international team of scientists led by researchers at the University of California, Davis, has come a step closer to solving the puzzle by sequencing the genome of a wild ancestor of bread wheat known as Aegilops tauschii, a type of goatgrass.

Horses» wild ancestors are also extinct, but remains from the warrior steeds of Genghis Khan and medieval knights, the Romans» chariot horses and the mounts of the ancient Scythians, Greeks and Persians might fill in gaps in horse history and prehistory.

Both paths — scientists are still debating which was more likely for different animals — led to the creation of domesticated species or subspecies genetically distinct from their wild ancestors.

Certainly, cats are more like their wild ancestors than dogs are, says Grange.

While at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, Cagan compared DNA from the tame rats and mink at Novosibirsk, and from other domesticated species, with DNA from aggressive counterparts and wild ancestors.

Wheat and its wild ancestors have genomes much larger than humans, which makes sequencing difficult.

Although they carry material from their wild ancestors, we can no longer be certain which species contributed a particular characteristic.

However, all the countries sampled had ferrets with lower genetic diversity than their wild ancestors.

But those branches in tomatoes still look like the wild ancestor's — with flowers, and subsequently, fruit, arranged in a zigzag along an end branch.

A big difference between domesticated wine grapes and their wild ancestors is pollination.

Cultivated carrots, cabbages, broccoli, and brussels sprouts revert to their wild ancestors.

Domesticated animals have a large number of wild ancestors, Frantz, Groenen, and their colleagues report online today in Nature Genetics.

In response to these pressures, weedy forms that evolved from the crop forms are taking on traits more like those of wild ancestors.

Yet not enough time had passed for the domestic rabbit to evolve very many consistent differences from the wild ancestor, and no gene stood out as key to domestication, reported Andersson's colleague, Nima Rafati, at the meeting.

Researchers have probed the history of sheep, dogs, horses, and other species, looking for DNA that helped make their wild ancestors more accommodating to people.

This finding supports an earlier theory coined «the cost of domestication», which predicted increasing genetic loads in domesticates compared to their wild ancestors.

Modern corn resembles teosinte, its wild ancestor, the way a teacup Chihuahua resembles a gray wolf.

«The wild ancestors of C4 crops are thought to have grown as individuals in open habitats where the number of leaves that they produced would have been limited by water and nitrogen and most leaves would be exposed to full sunlight» said principal investigator Steve Long, Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois.

And it showed that the domestication of cassava occurred in a place where humans have had their longest association with the wild ancestor of the plant.

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.

A genetic study shows that modern potatoes were cultivated from two wild ancestors, contradicting the straightforward story that has long been told.

Peach fossils more than 2.5 million years old have been discovered in China, showing that the wild ancestors of today's peaches were already well - established before either Homo erectus or modern humans arrived on the scene.

Still others believe that the reduction in brain size is proof that we have tamed ourselves, just as we domesticated sheep, pigs, and cattle, all of which are smaller - brained than their wild ancestors.

Tehuacan162 didn't have hard seed coats like its wild ancestor would have.

Maize as we know it looks so different from its wild ancestor that a couple of decades ago scientists had not reached a consensus regarding the true ancestor of maize.»

Researchers who have sequenced the genome of a 5,310 - year - old corn cob have discovered that the maize grown in central Mexico all those years ago was genetically more similar to modern maize than to its wild ancestor.