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The Role of Oxytocin in the Dog–Owner Relationship

Animals, 2019
Oxytocin (OT) is involved in multiple social bonds, from attachment between parents and offspring to “friendships”. Dogs are an interesting species in which to investigate the link between the oxytocinergic system and social bonds since they ...
Sarah Marshall-Pescini, Franka S. Schaebs, Alina Gaugg, Anne Meinert, Tobias Deschner, Friederike Range   +5 more
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Genomics Approaches to Domestication Studies of Horticultural Crops

Horticultural Plant Journal, 2019
The majority of crops we eat today are derived from the domestication of their wild progenitors. Crop domestication satisfies the human need for food and nutrition.
Zhongmin Yang, Guixiang Li, Denise Tieman, Guangtao Zhu   +3 more
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Recurrent co-domestication of PIF/Harbinger transposable element proteins in insects

Mobile DNA, 2022
Background Transposable elements (TEs) are selfish DNA sequences capable of moving and amplifying at the expense of host cells. Despite this, an increasing number of studies have revealed that TE proteins are important contributors to the emergence of ...
Dragomira N. Markova, Fatema B. Ruma, Claudio Casola, Ayda Mirsalehi, Esther Betrán   +4 more
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Validating a remote saliva collection tool for genomic analyses in free ranging dogs

Scientific Reports
Saliva is a well-established source of DNA for various applications due to its non-invasive collection and its provision of high-quality DNA. However, its use in wild and free-ranging animal research remains limited due to challenges in collection ...
Giulia Cimarelli, Martina Lazzaroni, Clément Car, Ikhlass El Berbri, Sarah Marshall-Pescini, Małgorzata Pilot   +5 more
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Neophilia in wolves and dogs

Animal Cognition
The study of domestication provides a unique opportunity to analyze the effects of natural selection in the attraction towards novelty, because selective pressures on domesticated animals are often greatly diminished or different from their wild ...
Dániel Rivas-Blanco, Lou Gonnet-dit-Revel, Friederike Range, Sabine Tebbich, Sarah Marshall-Pescini   +4 more
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The Joint Simon task is not joint for capuchin monkeys

Scientific Reports
Human cooperation can be facilitated by the ability to create a mental representation of one’s own actions, as well as the actions of a partner, known as action co-representation.
Mayte Martínez, Matthew H. Babb, Friederike Range, Sarah F. Brosnan   +3 more
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Analysis of Domestication Strategies in Mohammad Hezbayeizadeh’s Translation of the Novel Sleep in the Cherry Orchard [PDF]

پژوهش‌های ترجمه در زبان و ادبیات عربی
Domestication is one of the strategies often employed by skilled literary translators to infuse the translation with the tone and flavor of the target language and to make it more appealing to its readers.
Ali Saedavi, Zahra Saki
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Testing Domestication Scenarios of Lima Bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.) in Mesoamerica: Insights from Genome-Wide Genetic Markers

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2017
Plant domestication can be seen as a long-term process that involves a complex interplay among demographic processes and evolutionary forces. Previous studies have suggested two domestication scenarios for Lima bean in Mesoamerica: two separate ...
María I. Chacón-Sánchez, Jaime Martínez-Castillo   +1 more
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Genetic Diversity and Domestication Footprints of Chinese Cherry [Cerasus pseudocerasus (Lindl.) G.Don] as Revealed by Nuclear Microsatellites

Frontiers in Plant Science, 2018
Chinese cherry [Cerasus pseudocerasus (Lindl.) G.Don] is a commercially important fruit crop in China, but its structure patterns and domestication history remain imprecise. To address these questions, we estimated the genetic structure and domestication
Jing Zhang, Jing Zhang, Tao Chen, Tao Chen, Yan Wang, Yan Wang, Qing Chen, Bo Sun, Ya Luo, Yong Zhang, Haoru Tang, Haoru Tang, Xiaorong Wang, Xiaorong Wang   +13 more
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Translation in Movie Subtitles: Foreignization and Domestication

Lensa: Kajian Kebahasaan, Kesusastraan, dan Budaya, 2020
Translationnot only concerned with the transfer of languages butalso the cultural aspect of language. This study aims to investigate the treatment -foreignization, and domestication- and to find the pattern concerning the treatment in two movie subtitles,
Mega Septy Puspitasari
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