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The Domestication Makeup: Evolution, Survival, and Challenges

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2020
Animal domestication is considered a complex and multistage process that altered behaviorally, morphologically, and physiologically the domesticates relative to their wild ancestors.
Hafiz Ishfaq Ahmad, Hafiz Ishfaq Ahmad, Muhammad Jamil Ahmad, Farwa Jabbir, Sunny Ahmar, Nisar Ahmad, Abdelmotaleb A. Elokil, Jinping Chen   +7 more
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Mechanical Programming of PEGDA‐β‐CD Polyrotaxane‐Based Hydrogels via Host–Guest Molecular Recognition

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A mechanically programmable hydrogel for tissue engineering is developed by modulating the molecular threading density of poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate‐β‐cyclodextrin (PEGDA‐β‐CD) polyrotaxane and combining it with β‐CD‐modified gelatin. The polyrotaxane‐guided transition from disordered pores to laminar microstructures enables precise tuning ...
Shiyi Chen, Xudan Xing, Haopu Su, Dominik Voll, Xiaohe Xu, Jiafeng Wan, Tongtong Cui, Christian W. Schmitt, Stefan Bräse, Peng Li, Patrick Théato   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the (limited) use of touchscreen-based behavioural and cognitive research with dogs: potential causes and future directions

Animal Cognition
Dogs (Canis familiaris) are an increasingly popular model in comparative cognition research. Traditional research paradigms often rely on heavy experimenter involvement, which can introduce biases and inconsistencies.
Siqi Yang-Fu, Christian Menne, Chiara Canori, Dániel Rivas-Blanco, Oli Green, Friederike Range, Tiago Monteiro   +6 more
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Analysis of ancient and modern horse genomes reveals the critical impact of lncRNA-mediated epigenetic regulation on horse domestication

Frontiers in Genetics, 2022
Background: The domestication of horses has played critical roles in human civilizations. The excavation of ancient horse DNA provides crucial data for studying horse domestication.
Baoyan Xu, Baoyan Xu, Guixian Yang, Baowei Jiao, Hao Zhu   +4 more
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Incorporation of aurochs into a cattle herd in Neolithic Europe: single event or breeding? [PDF]

, 2014
Domestication is an ongoing process continuously changing the lives of animals and humans and the environment. For the majority of European cattle (Bos taurus) genetic and archaeozoological evidence support initial domestication ca. 11’000 BP in the Near
Elsner, Julia, Schibler, Jörg, Schlumbaum, Angela   +2 more
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Tunable Negative Thermal Expansion in Fe/Cr‐Substituted Nd2Co17 Compounds via Magnetoelastic Coupling

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study achieves anisotropic thermal expansion tuning in Nd2(Co1‐xFex)17‐yCry compounds via a magnetoelastic strategy. Variable‐temperature synchrotron X‐ray diffraction reveals that increased Fe content induces switchable lattice responses. Compositional control reduces the volume expansion coefficient αV by 20% (x═0.7) and modulates TC (442–625 K),
Jiayuan Li, Chenfei Qv, Haoran Tu, Qinfen Gu, Wayne D. Hutchison, Stewart J. Campbell, Zhenxiang Cheng, Wenquan Wang, Jianli Wang   +8 more
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Differences in dogs’ and wolves’ human-directed greeting behaviour: facial expressions, body language, and the problem of human biases

Animal Cognition
Dogs and wolves communicate effectively with humans, yet differences in their human-directed facial expressions and the role of relationship strength in shaping these behaviours remain poorly understood.
Svenja Capitain, Gwendolyn Wirobski, Çağla Önsal, Giulia Pedretti, Valeria Bevilacqua, Sarah Marshall-Pescini, Friederike Range   +6 more
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Deference or sociability? Insights from dogs’ and wolves’ human-directed behavior in a food-conflict task

Frontiers in Psychology
Whether dogs’ pronounced human proximity-seeking is motivated by a selection for hypersociability or deferential behavior (i.e., will to please the human) remains contested. Since disentangling these motivations has been challenging in amicable contexts,
Svenja Capitain, Sarah Marshall-Pescini, Gwendolyn Wirobski, Gwendolyn Wirobski, Tabea Teichmann, Friederike Range   +5 more
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Unraveling Origin, History, Genetics, and Strategies for Accelerated Domestication and Diversification of Food Legumes

Frontiers in Genetics, 2022
Domestication is a dynamic and ongoing process of transforming wild species into cultivated species by selecting desirable agricultural plant features to meet human needs such as taste, yield, storage, and cultivation practices. Human plant domestication
Ambika, Muraleedhar S. Aski, Gayacharan, Aladdin Hamwieh, Akshay Talukdar, Santosh Kumar Gupta, Brij Bihari Sharma, Rekha Joshi, H. D. Upadhyaya, H. D. Upadhyaya, Kuldeep Singh, Rajendra Kumar   +11 more
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Interrogation of modern and ancient genomes reveals the complex domestic history of cattle [PDF]

, 2014
The analysis of mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequence polymorphisms from modern cattle populations has had a profound impact on our understanding of the events surrounding the domestication of cattle.
Magee, D. A., MacHugh, D. E., Edwards, Ceiridwen J.   +2 more
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