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Scientific Reports, 2021 Oxytocin (OT) promotes pro-sociality, bonding, and cooperation in a variety of species. Measuring oxytocin metabolite (OTM) concentrations in urine or saliva provides intriguing opportunities to study human and animal behaviour with minimal disturbance ...
G. Wirobski +4 more
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From Crop Domestication to Super-domestication [PDF]
Annals of Botany, 2007 Research related to crop domestication has been transformed by technologies and discoveries in the genome sciences as well as information-related sciences that are providing new tools for bioinformatics and systems' biology. Rapid progress in archaeobotany and ethnobotany are also contributing new knowledge to understanding crop domestication.
Vaughan, DA +2 more
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iScience, 2023 Summary: Domestication has altered dogs’ conspecific social organization compared to their closest, non-domesticated relatives, gray wolves. Wolves live in packs whose survival depends on coordinated behavior, but dogs rely less on conspecifics, which ...
Gwendolyn Wirobski +5 more
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Current Biology, 2022 Rice is a staple food crop for more than one-third of the global population (http://www.sustainablerice.org/), of which 90% live at or near the poverty line. Thus, rice genetic improvement is important for global food security and is critical for enhancing socioeconomic benefits and reducing the environmental impacts of agriculture.
Fornasiero, Alice +2 more
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Investigating Indirect and Direct Reputation Formation in Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus)
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Reputation is a key component in social interactions of group-living animals and appears to play a role in the establishment of cooperation. Animals can form a reputation of an individual by directly interacting with them or by observing them interact ...
Hoi-Lam Jim +6 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 IntroductionTo explore human-canid relationships, we tested similarly socialized and raised dogs (Canis familiaris) and wolves (Canis lupus) and their trainers in a wildlife park.
Megane E. Burkhard +5 more
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Chapter 3 Conceptualizing re-domestication
, 2023 Chapter 3: This chapter takes an in-depth look at the notion of re-domestication and fills a theoretical gap by proposing a sound and empirically supported conceptualization.
Röser, Jutta, Peil, Corinna
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Locus-specific view of flax domestication history [PDF]
, 2011 Crop domestication has been inferred genetically from neutral markers and increasingly from specific domestication-associated loci. However, some crops are utilized for multiple purposes that may or may not be reflected in a single domestication ...
Diederichsen, Axel +5 more
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Making domestication research policy relevant
, 2023 From the very outset, the domestication approach was inspired by an ambition to inform policy debates. This was obvious in early delineations of the approach in the 1980s.
Olsson, Tobias,, Martinez, Carolina,
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Agronomy, 2023 The Prunus genus contains many of the most economically significant arboreal crops, cultivated globally, today. Despite the economic significance of these domesticated species, the pre-cultivation ranges, processes of domestication, and routes of ...
Rita Dal Martello +15 more
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