Host-associated microbiomes play an increasingly appreciated role in animal metabolism,
immunity and health. The microbes in turn depend on their host for resources and can be …

Domestication of livestock species and a long history of migrations, selection and adaptation
have created an enormous variety of breeds. Conservation of these genetic resources relies …

Abstract In European and many African, Middle Eastern and southern Asian populations,
lactase persistence (LP) is the most strongly selected monogenic trait to have evolved over …

Domestic sheep and their wild relatives harbor substantial genetic variants that can form the
backbone of molecular breeding, but their genome landscapes remain understudied. Here …

Through their domestication and subsequent selection, sheep have been adapted to thrive
in a diverse range of environments. To characterise the genetic consequence of both …

The dog was the first domesticated animal but it remains uncertain when the domestication
process began and whether it occurred just once or multiple times across the Northern …

Domestication and the subsequent selection of animals for either economic or
morphological features can leave a variety of imprints on the genome of a population …

In this article I present a new archaeological synthesis concerning the earliest formation of
mobile pastoralist economies across central Eurasia. I argue that Eurasian steppe …

▪ Abstract The study of complex adaptive systems, a subset of nonlinear dynamical systems,
has recently become a major focus of interdisciplinary research in the social and natural …

Background After domestication, the evolution of phenotypically-varied sheep breeds has
generated rich biodiversity. This wide phenotypic variation arises as a result of hidden …